A female
traveller reportedly lost her life yesterday during a shootout between
men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and suspected robbers.
The incident occurred at the Niger Bridge head in Asaba, Delta State. Hundreds of other travellers had a tough time crossing the Niger Bridge as a five-man gang laid siege to the bank of the bridge.
The gang had waited for unsuspecting travellers for Christmas from the South-West geopolitical zone of the country.
The hoodlums hid near the motor park of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), waiting to unleash terror on the travellers. But SARS men from Onitsha, Anambra State raced to the area and engaged the hoodlums in a shootout which lasted for almost 25 minutes. This forced commuters to scamper for safety while many lay flat on the ever-busy Benin-Asaba- Onistha Expressway in a desperate bid to escape stray bullets.
The incident occurred at the Niger Bridge head in Asaba, Delta State. Hundreds of other travellers had a tough time crossing the Niger Bridge as a five-man gang laid siege to the bank of the bridge.
The gang had waited for unsuspecting travellers for Christmas from the South-West geopolitical zone of the country.
The hoodlums hid near the motor park of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), waiting to unleash terror on the travellers. But SARS men from Onitsha, Anambra State raced to the area and engaged the hoodlums in a shootout which lasted for almost 25 minutes. This forced commuters to scamper for safety while many lay flat on the ever-busy Benin-Asaba- Onistha Expressway in a desperate bid to escape stray bullets.
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