Unknown gunmen attack police patrol team

There was palpable fear in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital over the weekend following the armed attacks on some parts of the state which led to a bloody shootout between a Police Patrol team and unknown gunmen, leading to the killing of a Police Sergeant.

The Police however foiled the attempts by gunmen, numbering twenty, to gain entry into the home of the State Treasurer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Gbalipre Turner, and kidnap him.

Leadership gathered that the two incidents, which occurred in Akenfa area of Yenagoa Local Government Area and Opume community in Ogbia local Government council of the State, caused a lot of panic among residents of the State capital.

It was gathered that the gunmen, who shot dead the Policeman, approached him under the deception that they were strangers who missed their way and ask him for direction. While offering them direction, he was shot at close range with locally made pistols and his rifle taken away.

It was gathered that he fought gallantly and shot two of his attackers, “the blood trail showed that some of the Police killers sustained fatal gun shots”