The Imo and Cross River states commands of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad on Wednesday killed seven suspected armed robbers and kidnappers. While two robbers were killed by the Imo SARS, five alleged kidnappers were killed by their counterparts in Cross River.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the armed robbers met their Waterloo while exchanging gunfire with the Imo SARS operatives during a robbery.
The incident, our correspondent gathered, occurred around 2am in Ezi-Ogbaku, in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state.
A police source said the SARS commander, Victor Godfrey, mobilised his men to the scene of the crime in the wee hours of the night.
Addressing journalists shortly after the corpses of the slain robbers were conveyed to the state police headquarters in Owerri, the state capital, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Andrew Enwerem, said three of the five-man gang fled with gunshot injuries.
He said the robbers, who were moving from house to house to rob, had opened fire on sighting policemen who responded to a distress call.
The police spokesperson said in the ensuing gun battle, two of the hoodlums were gunned down, while three others escaped.
He said, “In the early hours of Wednesday, the operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command received a distress call that armed robbers were operating at Ezi-Ogbaku. SARS, in conjunction with the Police Mobile Force officers, responded to the emergency around 2am.
Source: http://www.informationng.com/2017/11/sars-kill-seven-armed-robbers-imo-state.html
