How gunmen killed 5 cops, 6 civilians in Rivers

MORTAL fear has seized the people of Rivers State since last week when armed marauders murdered five police officers, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Muhammadu Halidu and six civilians at Okobe in Ahoada West Local Government Area.

The rampaging gunmen laid ambush for the police officers, attached to the 30 Mobile Police Force, code-named 30 MPF, Bayelsa state, on their way back from a national assignment in Yobe State and stole their rifles after snuffing the life out of them.

Police Public Relations Officer, Rivers State Police Command, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, who confirmed the massacre, said: “We are deeply pained by the senseless and barbaric killing of our colleagues attached to 30 PMF Yenagoa, who were ambushed in the early hours of today (last Monday) at Okobe en route Yenagoa.

“The tragedy again demonstrates the enormous calamities witnessed in the course of our job. We put our lives on the line everyday to confront crime and violence in our communities. We will stop at nothing to bring the perpetrators of this dastardly act to justice,” he said. .

A stray bullet from the gunmen killed a conductor attached to a trailer driver during the attack on the police officers.