Robbers Bombasted three soldiers, Fifteen civilians in Auchi, Edo state

last night, Soldiers got the worse of the day when  robbers held to ransom the people of Auchi in EdoState , using dynamites to blast four banks.
At the end of the robbers’ raid, 15 people, including three soldiers, were shot dead while the robbers scathed away with N3.5 million. can you imagine????
As if that wasnt enough, the blood-letting was replayed in BornoState where five policemen were killed and telecommunication masts in the state was destroyed.
How do we explain that robbers now use dynamites for operations and our security agents are getting killed so easily???
Medical Director of Auchi Central Hospital, Dr. Jude Omoregie, confirmed that three dead soldiers were brought to the hospital, Monday night. The soldiers, were said to have run into the robbers and were killed before they invaded the banks.
The civilians,  died through stray bullets in different parts of Auchi. Among the four banks attacked, it was learnt that the robbers succeeded in gaining entrance into only one of them because some of the staff of the bank were still on duty. It was said that about N3.5 million was stolen by the robbers.
It was also learnt that the police put up a resistance which infuriated the robbers who later went back to bomb a police station.

The robbers, numbering about 50, according to eye witnesses, were said to have stormed the area in three Camry cars and a bus and immediately headed to the Auchi Divisional Police Headquarters and the Police Area Command in Auchi, where they blew up the buildings with dynamites and bombs.
Several vehicles including police patrol vans, Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) within the Area Command and Auchi Division office were set ablaze. The robbers who were alleged to have come from a neighbouring state.
According to Vanguard, its been speculated that they might have been in the town for one week planning the attack.

Meanwhile, soldiers at the early hours of yesterday, took over the entire Auchi town, making it impossible for vehicles heading towards Abuja and the South-East to ply the road. It took the intervention of the state government before the ever busy Auchi-Abuja road was opened.
Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr Pius Odubu; the state Director of the State Security Service and the Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Hurdi Muhammad, visited Auchi yesterday, where the Otaru of Auchi, Alhaji Aliru Momoh, appealed to the Federal Government to beef up security in his domain.
Odubu who described the attack as shocking due to the damages recorded, stressed the need for the Federal Government to equip the police with sophisticated weapons to check the activities of robbers.
May God help us all in this country because things are really getting worse..
SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/auchi-under-siege/

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