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Those who struck during an ambush in Anyone, Ayilamo, Tombo ward Logo Local Government area of Benue state are believed to be herdsmen.
They killed five of the riot policemen deployed to check the wanton killings in the state.
The attack in which two police vehicles were set ablaze, happened on Sunday and yesterday morning.
According to an eyewitness in Ayilamo, Tersoo Anande, a riot policeman was attacked and killed along the Ayilamo- Anyone road on Sunday evening at about 6 pm.
Following this, a team of riot policemen in two trucks mobilized and went in pursuit of the attackers but ran into an ambush. Four of them were killed and an unspecified number is missing.
But Police spokesman Moses Yamu, said four riot policemen were killed by people he described as ”insurgents.”
In Kano, the Police have launched a manhunt for the killers of a policeman during the abduction of a German, yesterday.
The gunmen killed the policeman and abducted the expatriate engineer with Dantata and Sawoe Construction company.
Eyewitnesses said the incident took place at about 7.45am on Ring Road bypass in Kano metropolis.
He said the three gunmen who came in a black VW Golf first shot at the Police escort, after which the gunmen kidnapped the expatriate engineer who is supervising the road construction.
A security man Abuabakar Sani Muhammad the attack took place as they were about to commence the day’s activities.
“The three gunmen started shooting sporadically immediately they arrived and shot the riot policeman attached to the abducted engineer, while a stray bullet hit a truck driver in the area,” Muhammad narrated.
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