Men suspected to be armed robbers have been attacked and brutally killed in a Katsina State community sparking police investigations.
File photo: A mob
The Katsina State Police Command has revealed that it has begun investigation into the killing of three persons suspected to be armed robbers, in a mob attack, at Daga village of Jibia Local Government Area of the state.
According to The Sun News, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Gambo Isah, who spoke on the incident, on Tuesday, said that the robbers had attacked a cross section of residents there at about 2.30 am on September 30.
Isah identified the persons robbed to include one Abdulmimini Daga and three others.
Reports said that some of the residents mobilised and overpowered the armed robbers.
According to the PPRO, “the police upon reaching the scene of the crime, the mob had already killed the suspects but the police recovered an AK 47 and six live ammunition purportedly belonging to the robbers.
“Their corpses were taken to Federal Medical Center, Katsina where they were certified dead.”