Residents of Nsukka, Enugu State witnessed heavy shooting on Saturday as policemen battled a dare-devil armed robbery gang at a fuel station.
The hoodlums, DailyPost gathered, stormed the FECOL filling station located within the University of Nigeria town of Nsukka in motorbikes.
A source disclosed that they were already on their way out, having carted away huge sum of money from the filling station, when a police detachment from Nsukka Police Command confronted them.
A resident disclosed that the robbers upon sighting the policemen opened fire, adding that the police quickly responded.
Following the attack, two notorious armed robbers, who have been terrorizing Nsukka and its environs, lost their lives.
Confirming the incident to DailyPost, the spokesman of the Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu said, whereas one of the hoodlums died on the spot, the second gave up the ghost on the way to hospital, adding that one of them escaped with bullet injuries.
According to Amaraizu, “the robbers were on their robbery operation in the early hours of 5/4/14 at a FECOL filling station situated at Enugu Road Nsukka when security operatives engaged them following a distress call.
“The hoodlums had stormed the filling station with their motorcycle and commenced their illicit operation before they were engaged.
“The deceased robbers were later identified as Sunday Eze and Obinna Eze while manhunt on the injured and fleeing cohort of the deceased robbers has been intensified”.
“Items recovered from them are one Barreta pistol with seven rounds of live ammunitions, one motorcycle, one locally made pistol with one cartridge and some amount of money, which they had robbed from the filling station before they were confronted by the operatives.
“Their dead bodies have been deposited in a nearby hospital mortuary”, Amaraizu added.
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