Gunmen attack Ekiti Police Division, Kill Inspector, Loot Armoury (pictures)

Ido Division of the Ekiti State police command came underneath assault by way of yet to be identified gunmen within the night of Friday and killed a police Inspector on obligation and looted the armoury of the police station.

Sources at the police station informed newsmen in Ido-Ekiti, headquarters of Ido/Osi neighborhood govt field of the state, on Saturday that the gunmen numbered about forty and had shot indiscriminately on entry to the police station premises, inflicting wide damage.

The supply on the station also mentioned that the gunmen had attacked the station with dynamite, which destroyed doors, apparatus and the roof of the station, which has caused the policemen to be working under a tree there.

The police source mentioned: “They drove in recklessly through the gate. Some of them had scaled the fence and took over the whole police station. Some of them even scaled the fence and took strategic positions across the station, shot into the air sporadically and destroyed pretty much each room and place of business. They'd long gone straight to the police station and the armoury.

“They looted the armoury, took everything there and left it empty. Our suspicion was that they came only to loot the armoury when you consider that that was once

why they first attacked and demobilised our guys. Actually, they emptied the complete location.”

requested if some suspects of dangerous crime have been being detained on the station, which might be the rationale for the assault, the source mentioned “if that was once the reason, then they will have to have attacked the cells; they didn’t attack the cells.”

The supply stated the policemen on protect throughout the raid were overpowered due to the fact the attackers were fierce considering that, in keeping with him, “they rained bullets on the police inspector and he was said to have died immediate.”

Efforts made to reach out to the Police Public family members Officer of the state Command, Mr Alberto Adeyemi were unsuccessful, as all his cell mobilephone sets have been switched.

However a police officer demonstrated that the PPRO had visited the station to get first hand knowledge about the incident.