Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP, name withheld), who was shot on Friday in Benin, the Edo State capital, during the exchange of gunfire with cult members engaged in supremacy battle, died on Saturday at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
According to The Nation, two other policemen, both inspectors, who were also shot along with the ACP, were still receiving treatment at UBTH but on danger list, with bodies littering the streets and roads of Benin and environs.
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The Nation Newspaper
JUST IN: Shot Assistant Commissioner of Police dies in Edo … battle, died Saturday at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). … you that we are not sleeping, but with what has happened to the police in Edo State, …
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Jack Obinyan
In an online statement Media Adviser to The Governor Refuted This With Photos
Assistant Commissioner of Police in Edo is alive and recovering.
