A combined team of Policemen from the Aba Area Command, Abia State on Thursday recovered over N1million from fleeing armed robbers.
Also recovered from the robbers were, 2 cartridges of live ammunition and a double barrel cut to size gun and hand bags suspected to have been seized from their victims.
Fresh Angle scooped that the incident took place at about 4:pm around Hospital road by East Street had the robbers numbering three operating in a tricycle with registration number Abia UNC 076 VX where they raided a warehouse at No. 185 Hospital road, also robbed other
people.
Sources hinted that the Police patrol teams were alerted to a distress call that unidentified gunmen were robbing people along East Street by Hospital road.
According to the source, on sighting the police patrol, the robbers ran into the crowd leaving their guns, money and bags they snatched from their victims.
Abia state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Geoffrey Ogbonna could not be reached for comment, but a police source who pleaded anonymity confirmed the incident and disclosed that the amount recovered from the robbers is around the sum of N1, 147,800:00.
The source added that the robbers could not be arrested as they ran into a crowded market along Ohanku road making it impossible for the police to open fire at them to avoid putting the lives of traders in danger.
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