Gunmen yesterday ambushed a police patrol team, killing two and wounding two other officers in Kogi State.
The state Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, William Ovye-Aya, who made the disclosure in a statement, yesterday, said the attack on the police patrol team occurred on the Agbaja road, Lokoja, where the hoodlums emerged from the bush and attacked the team after they arrived for their routine patrol.
“Today, December 21, our Command received an unfortunate report and a wicked attack on our patrol team on the Agbaja road, Lokoja, by some hoodlums. The hoodlums emerged from the bush and attacked the team when they arrived for their routine patrol on the said road.
“Unfortunately and sadly, the command lost two of its personnel. The gunmen, however, fled before a re-enforcement team arrived at the scene of the ugly incident,” he said.
Ovye-Aya said the state Commissioner of Police, Akeem Yusuf, has deployed a team of tactical operatives to the area to trail the hoodlums, in order to apprehend and bring them to book. He said the CP further directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Investigation, to commence investigation into the ugly incident.
Ovye-Aya said the commissioner has appealed to the people of the area to assist the police with credible information on the identity of the hoodlums, to enable the command to check their criminal activities.