Kogi youths beat DPO, burn police van

LOKOJA — BARELY 24 hours after a gang of armed robbers invaded the Kabba Divisional Police Station, killing two officers, another Divisional Police Officer, (DPO) was beaten to a pulp while two others sustained serious injuries when a group of rampaging youths attacked Egume division of the station, Sunday.

Vanguard gathered that hundreds of irate youths were said to have mobilised in protest over the alleged illegal arrest of some of their kinsmen by the police, which they considered as ”very provocative.”

The rampaging youths, in the ensuing pandemonium, were said to have also set ablaze the police patrol van at the station and carted away some ammunition.

State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Amana Abakasanga, told newsmen that seven persons had been arrested in connection with the incidents and were undergoing interrogation at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), headquarters of the force in Lokoja.

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