About ten unknown gunmen attacked a bullion van conveying unspecified amount of cash to a new generation bank, kill a policeman, two women and made away with unspecified cash amount, gatewaycommunications has learned.
The sad incident occured at Ubulu-Okiti, along the Benin-Asaba expressway, Aniocha South local government area of Delta State.
According to The Guardian, the gunmen came out of a bush on sighting the bullion van and began shooting sporadically until the bullion van that was conveying the raw cash to a new generation bank and the escorts stopped.
Gatewaycommunications learnt that the gunmen had a gun-battle with security personnel attached to the van but overpowered them and succeeded in killing a police officer and two women close to the scene, before making away with cash running into millions of Naira. One of the women killed by stray bullet was a female passenger of a bus caught in the crossfire.