Some unidentified gunmen has killed one
Chinese national, a police officer and two other workers of a mining
company at Alongani village in Nasarawa Eggon local government area of
Nasarawa state.
The State Police Command spokesman, DPS
Kennedy Idirisu, who confirmed the killing, said that the victims were
returning from their mining site in a company truck at about 4:00pm
Monday before they were ambushed at Alongani village by the gunmen who
shot at them from different directions.
Idirisu said that a Chinese, a police
escort and two others workers were killed during the ambush while
another Chinese national survived with bullet wound and currently being
treated in the hospital.
Idrisu added that the state Commissioner
of Police, Abubakar Sadiq Bello, had deployed officers and men of the
command to the area to work in collaboration with other security
agencies as well as the vigilante in order fish out the perpetrators of
the heinous crime.
He noted that the Commissioner of Police
had visited the chairman of the Nasarawa Eggon local government area as
well as the mining company office with the view to tackling the
disturbing situation in the area.
Credit: dailytrust