Horror! Gunmen Kill Assistant Commissioner Of Police In Calabar

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An Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Egbe Edum has been killed by gunmen.

The Police Command in Cross River State confirmed the killing of the Assistant Commissioner of Police. The police officer was killed by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar.

The command`s Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar.

Ugbo said that the deceased, who came into the state to see his family, was killed with an axe by the gunmen on the Murtala Mohammed Highway.

NAN reports that the deceased was the Commander of the Police Mobile Force Squadron 73 in Magumeri, Borno.