Two suspected armed robbers have been killed in Kano state by the Nigerian police, The Nation reports.
Disclosing the details of the incident to journalists in the state, the Kano state police command public relations officer, Magaji Majiya, said the suspects were killed by men of the anti-robbery squad.
Majiya, an assistant superintendent of police, revealed that they were killed following a tip-off after they lodged in a hotel behind the Malam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano.
He said: ”The suspects are from Kano but they normally strike in Kano and go to Kaduna and hide with their colleagues from other parts of the country.”
According to him, the gang leader escaped through the ceiling and called one of his gang members who took him to his house at Sharada Quarters in Kano where they took another car.
Majiya said when the robbers realised that they were being trailed, they opened fire on the police vehicle but they were however overpowered by the police who killed two of them while another escaped with an AK47 rifle.
‘’We recovered an English pistol, one Mercedes Benz, one BMW, fake ID cards and anti-car tracker and some charms.
Meanwhile, the inspector general of police, Solomon Arase has donated 15 patrol vehicles to the Kano state police command to bolster security and protect the lives and property of the citizens.
Just recently, the Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, visited the state’s central prison where he ordered the release of about 108 inmates serving various jail terms.
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