The Kogi State Police Command has paraded twenty-one persons in connection with the killing of a police officer during a shootout with armed robbers who attacked a community bank in Adavi Local Government Area of the state.
The deceased officer, Sgt. Patrick Sunday was killed alongside two of the armed robbers, Yakubu and another unidentified male.
While parading the suspects at the state command headquarters in Lokoja on Tuesday, the State Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya, said the incident happened on November 27, adding that the hoodlums engaged the police in a gun duel, leading to the death of Sergeant Sunday, while two of the criminals were also killed.
Aya said the police recovered from the robbery scene two AK47 Riffles, ten AK 47 Magazines, one hundred AK 47 live ammunition, one face mask, one Techno and ITEL mobile phone, one crape bandage, one pack of cotton wool, one bottle of Dettol and two sachet of hard drugs.
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