About
12 people including three policemen were on Thursday feared killed as
suspected pipeline vandals engaged the police in a bloody clash.
Eight members of the vandals reportedly lost their lives in the battle which lasted for more than 40 minutes.
It
was gathered that operatives of the Inspector General of Police Task
Force on pipeline vandalism had gone on a surveillance tour of Igando
when the hoodlums attacked them.
It was learnt that scores of
vandals were on operation with some of them strategically placed to ward
off disturbance from the police or any other group.
The vandals
were in the thick of siphoning petroleum product from the pipeline when
the policemen, said to be from Abuja, swooped on them.
It was
further gathered that the vandals had, on sighting the policemen, opened
fire on them and the policemen responded, resulting in a fierce gun
battle.
Efforts to speak with the image maker in charge of the
state police command, Kenneth Nwosu, failed as calls to his mobile phone
line were not answered
Credit: Olalekan Olabulo/Tribune
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