Two mobile police officer where shot dead on Monday in Warri Delta State, the victims were shot at airport junction roundabout around 1pm when they stopped at a store to pick up a mobile phone,the two men were on mufti as gathered.
“The two guys stood over there, pricing phones; all of a sudden, a vehicle pulled up behind them and some guys, about two of them, just came out of the vehicle and opened fire on the two of them
“The killers zoomed off as soon as they had brought their targets down. It was like they trailed them to that point.
“Initially, everybody scampered away from the whole area on hearing the gun sound, but by the time the tension has gone down and people ran back to the spot, we discovered that one of them was still alive. We later realised that they were mobile policemen because we saw the ID card of the dead victim,” Mr Ahmed, one of the eyewitnesses told the Nation.
The spokesperson of the Delta State police command, Celestina Kalu (DSP), said the victims were mobile policemen from 27 PMF, Katsina, attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Warri.
She gave the names of the two deceased policemen as Cpl Usman Ango and Cpl Usman Adamu, Kalu described the incident as that of armed robbery, adding that the state’s police command had commenced investigation into the matter.
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