A gang of armed robbers
operating in Delta State
overpowered a military patrol
team in a gun battle at the
weekend, and fled with a
Toyota Hilux vehicle attached
to the squad after raiding a
bank at Umunede.
One of the soldiers was
wounded by the bandits who
also shot an onlooker while
escaping with their booty at
Agbor.
Delta State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Charles
Muka, who confirmed the
robbery, told Sunday
Vanguard that a staff of the
bank has been arrested in
connection with the incident.
It was gathered that the
bandits, who might have
operated with the knowledge
of an insider at the bank,
successfully completed their
mission but shot dead a
passerby and injured a driver
for allegedly blocking their
escape route.
The hoodlums, reportedly
heading towards Warri after
the Umunede operation via
the Agbor-Obiaruku-Abraka
road, were confronted by the
military patrol team.
An eye witness said: “It was a
fierce gun duel. The robbers
overpowered the soldiers.
One of the soldiers sustained
bullet wounds and they
(robbers) took the soldiers
Hilux van and fled with it”.
The police spokesman
confirmed that the bank staff,
arrested, fled from the police
station some hours after he
was nabbed, but he was
tracked down and
investigation into the matter
was being handled by the
Criminal Investigation
Department of the state
police command.
Sunday Vanguard learnt that
the suspect was fingered in a
similar robbery incident in the
bank in the past as the person
that gave information to
robbers.

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Bravo tn those robbers for thier courageous attempt.