Police in Bayelsa confirm death of two suspected assassins

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By  Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa—The police in Bayelsa State, yesterday, confirmed the death of two persons arrested in connection with last month's killings in Azikoro suburb of Yenagoa.

The deceased, identified as Gbafare Gold and Ayi Benjamin, popularly known as Obaino, were reportedly killed during a gun duel, following an ambush on the  police team at Igbogene in the outskirts of the capital city.

The duo were said to have confessed to the killing of Orlando and British, said to be providing intelligence information to security agencies on the activities of cultists in the state.

Parading 24 other suspects for various crimes in Yenagoa, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kingsley Omire, who confirmed the death of Gold  and Benjamin, said they were taking the police to the place they claimed was their armoury when they came under attack.

He said the gunmen believed to be working for the suspects laid ambush to them at Igbogene, when they were leading the police officers to their armoury, which he said turned out to be a decoy.

He said: "We didn't know it was a plot to kill the police officers and escape. The police operatives had a close shave with death."

On why the suspects could not escape during the gun battle, he said: "They were chained to the back of the vehicle, so there was no way they would have been able to jump out while only two of the detectives were in the vehicle. Two of the suspects who were at the back were hit.

"They were taken to Federal Medical Centre, FMC, where they died. It was a close shave with death for the policemen. What saved the policemen was that apart from the white vehicle, they did not use any other traditional patrol vehicle."

He appealed to members of the public to work with the police by providing information that would assist in riding the state of criminal elements.

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