BREAKING: Police Officer Killed, Another Hospitalised After Kidnappers’ Ambush
The new Divisional Police Officer (DPO), posted to Agbarho police station a few days ago in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, has been reportedly killed.
Ibom Focus learnt that his Orerokpo counterpart in the Okpe Local Government Area of the state simply identified as CSP Paul is currently on a life support in an undisclosed hospital.
It was gathered that there were distress calls at about 1:30am on Monday to the new DPO that some persons had been kidnapped and their vehicle was trapped at the Agbarho railway station.
A source said, “Immediately, the new DPO contacted his Orerokpo counterpart and they mobilised and went to the area and unknown to them, the kidnappers ambushed them and fired at them.
“The new Agbarho DPO was killed, his Orerokpo counterpart was seriously wounded and rushed to an undisclosed hospital. Other policemen in the team were also killed but we don’t know how many they are for now.
“The Agbarho DPO just resumed duty two days ago and as we talk, his wife is still in the hotel where he was called from. The wife is not even aware as we talk now that his husband has been killed by kidnappers.”
All efforts to contact the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Bright Edafe, for comments failed as he did not answer his calls.
He also did not reply to the text messages sent to him.
