Kogi State Police Command, yesterday in Lokoja, confirmed the killing of three robbery suspects during an operation along Agbede-Oshokoso-Kabba Road.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP William Aya, told newsmen that the robbers were killed by members of a Vigilante Group operating in the area.

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Aya said that the suspects, who were fully armed and masked, were robbing innocent Nigerians of their belongings when members of a nearby vigilante group ran into them.

He said that the suspects engaged the vigilante men in a gun battle and it was in the process that a police detachment came to assist them.

According to him, “on sighting the police, the suspects, who were about 10, fled into the bush and it was while combing the bush that three dead bodies were recovered by the police.”

Aya said that police came to the scene after the Kabba Police Division received a distress call from the vigilante group.

He said that the bodies were deposited at the Police Area Command Office, Kabba.