Gunmen reportedly shot two unnamed police officers assigned to the Dragon Patrol Team on Sunday at their checkpoint on the Ughelli-Asaba Road opposite the Oleh roundabout in Delta State. They were thought dead.
Although he could not confirm whether the two officers died as a result of the attack, a commercial motorist who narrowly avoided death in the incident reported that the police patrol van was set on fire.
He claimed that by the time he and other people emerged from the thicket where they had collided, another police vehicle had been dispatched to remove the casualties.
As of the time this story was filed, DSP Bright Edafe, the state police public relations officer command, could not be reached for comments on the event.
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Meanwhile, the Ondo State Police Command said a driver who crushed a policeman to death at a checkpoint along the Benin-Owo Expressway at the Ifon area of the Ose Local Government Area of the state on Sunday had been arrested.
According to the police, the driver was arrested by the men of the Nigeria Army at Sobe in Edo State.
The command, however, denied an earlier report that the cop was killed by suspected kidnappers.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the death of the policeman, declared that it was a case of hit-and-run and not kidnapping.
She said, “While policemen were trying to stop the driver of a suspected vehicle, he didn’t stop. So, our men were alerted on the highway, but on getting to a particular place around Ifon, the driver swerved and hit an ASP and the officer died immediately.
“The driver, was, however, pursued and fortunately for us he (the driver) was arrested by the military men at Sobe in Edo State.”
A 53 seconds viral video showed the scene of the incident and the deceased lying on the road in a pool of blood.
He was also seen with a head injury while his colleagues carried his lifeless body into a police van.
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