Gunmen Kill Policeman, 2 Others In Bauchi

Three persons including a mobile policeman were left dead when unknown gunmen Monday night struck at a First Bank branch and police station in Drazo, headquarters of a Local Government Area in Bauchi state.

The armed robbers similarly sent to the hospital a lady and a teenage hawker in the pandemonium that left people running for dear lives

 Confirming the incident to our correspondent, the Police Public Relations Officer ASP, Hassan Mohammed, said that “the gunmen stormed the town around nine o’clock in the night.

Mohammed explained that the gunmen attacked Darazo Divisional Police Station and First Bank, and said, however,that the police repelled the robbery and the burning of the police station.


 “There was a fight between the attackers and our men, while we are exchanging fire with the hoodlums a mobile policeman, a corporal, was shot dead”, the police spokesman said.

According to him, a lady and a teenage hawker were hit by stray bullets, two of whom  died in the hospital while the other is currently receiving treatment.