Police kills one armed robbery suspect, recovers AK-47 rifle in Gombe

Operatives of Gombe State Police Command have neutralized one suspected armed robber, and recovered one AK47 rifle.

According to a press statement by the Command PPRO, ASP Mahid Abubakar Mu’azu, On 6/7/2023 at about 0145hrs, information was received from a trailer driver along the Gombe-Bojude axis that some suspected armed robbers had blocked the Gombe to Degeze road and robbed drivers and passengers of their properties.

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On receipt of the information, Police operatives attached to Bojude Division who were on routine patrol rushed to the scene on a rescue mission.

On getting to the scene, “the armed robbers engaged the operatives in a gun duel but were subdued by the fire-power of the Police who succeeded in neutralizing one of the robbers and recovered an AK 47 rifle and a phone as exhibits, the corpse has been deposited at the morgue”.

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