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Friday, October 1st 2004 HOME | back to previous page Robbers kill five policemen in Abuja bank raid By Chris Agbambu, Onyekachi Eze and Don Bassey, Abuja   A gang of robbers on Thursday killed a mobile policeman attached to the Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2 branch of Continental Trust Bank and wounded some customers in an early morning operation. While fleeing, the five-man robbery gang engaged some policemen at Yanyan Junction in a gun duel. The robbers caught the policemen unawares and killed four of them. Two others were wounded and many passersby were injured. Head of the police anti-robbery squad who did not disclose his name said the gang carried out the raid at about 9.30 a.m carting away N210,000. No arrests were made as at press time. An eyewitness said, �The gang drove to the bank in a 406 Peugeot car. As soon as we heard gunshots, all these phone people (commercial phone operators) started calling the police. In fact, an okada man drove to NICON Hilton junction to meet those policemen standing there but they said did not have fuel in their car. Another �okada� went after the thieves, met them at that junction (Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent/Ahmadu Bello Street Junction) and told the traffic wardens and policemen there to stop the vehicle but they just looked at the car and let it go.� Customers who had come to deposit or withdraw their money from the bank were shocked to see the lifeless body of the policeman said to be a sergeant in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Mobile Police Force (MOPOL). The latest robbery brings to six the number of banks robbed in the Federal Capital Territory in the last two months. The FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr. Emmanuel Adebayo told newsmen that he was not aware of any casualty during the attack, but quickly added that he was yet to receive full report from his men on the field.   Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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