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JUST IN: Gunmen Attack Kogi Police Station, Kill 3 Officers

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Apr 23, 2022.

Benard Joseph

Gunmen Attack Kogi Police Station, Kill 3 Officers
The Kogi state Commissioner of Police, Mr Edward Egbuka said the three officers were killed in a gun duel with the assailants who took the officers on duty at the Adavi Division by surprise.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that unknown gunmen have launched an attack on Adavi Police Divisional headquarters in the early hours of Saturday morning, in Kogi state, killing three police officers.

The Kogi state Commissioner of Police, Mr Edward Egbuka, confirmed the unfortunate incident in a statement through his spokesman SP William Ovye-Aya, in Lokoja

He described the attack as callous and very painful.

Egbuka affirmed that the three officers were killed in a gun duel with the assailants who took the officers on duty at the Adavi Division by surprise.

“This early morning of Saturday, the Command received a report of an unfortunate incident at Adavi Police Division, where some hoodlums attacked the station.

“They shot sporadically but were repelled by our men and operatives of the Quick Response Unit who were on special operations at Adavi Local Government Area.

“Unfortunately, the Command lost three of its officers to the gun duel, while the hoodlums fled with gunshot wounds as they could not get access into the station.

“Consequently, a team of tactical operatives was deployed and it swiftly restored normalcy to the area.

“Operatives are trailing the hoodlums with a view to apprehending and bringing them to book,’’ Ovye-Aya quoted Egbuka as saying.

Egbuka called on the people of Adavi and adjoining communities to be on the lookout and report anybody seen with bullet wounds to the police or any security outpost nearest to them.

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The police commissioner sent his condolences to the families of the three fallen police officers, whom he said had done the police force proud.

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