Robbers kill 3, snatch local government salaries in Borno State

Suspected bandits yesterday, Wednesday killed two policemen and a staff of Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno State and made away with millions of naira that was meant for the payment of salary of the local government employees.

According to eyewitness, the police had escorted the staff of the finance department of the local government, who withdrew the unspecified amount of money at a new generation bank in Maiduguri, the state capital, but were confisicated along Magumeri-Gubio highway, noting that the heavily armed men who drove in a white Starlet saloon car at about 2.30pm, intercepted the vehicle carrying the police escort and the local government officials.

The source said: “They brandished sophisticated guns and shot the victims before they took away all the money that was withdrawn from the bank.”

Chairman of the local government said: “Nobody can say from where the gunmen came. The unfortunate thing had happened. Lives have been lost and colossal amount of money robbed.”

 “We have also recovered the dead bodies for burial,” he added.

Meanwhile, Mr. Gideon Jubrin, police spokesman in the state, said he was yet to be informed on the incident.

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