Gunmen kill lecturer in Gombe
Suspected armed robbers on Sunday, May 29, killed a lecturer and a Cameroonian at Kashere junction on the Gombe-Kumo road around 11.45pm, The Cable reports.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Gombe state police command
on Monday, May 30.
According to Ahmed Usman, the command’s spokesman, the lecturer who was identified as Sulaiman Umar, lectures at the Department of Arabic Studies, Federal University, Kashere, while the Cameroonian was identified as Zainab Mahmuda.
However, Usman said the command have made arrests with about eight suspects in police custody.
Usman said investigation into the incident had commenced.
The unfortunate death of a lecturer and a Cameroonian in Gombe comes just few days after two mobile policemen were gunned down by suspected robbers in the oil-rich city of Warri, Delta state just as irate mob set suspected criminal ablaze in the city.
It was gathered from eyewitnesses that the two MOPOL attached to the JTF were shot by the gunmen by the gate of Our Lady’s High School, Airport Junction, Effurun.
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