Naval Officer, Woman Shot Dead In Kogi Two Days After Army Officer, Wife Were Killed
Another curios murder of military officers that is increasingly looking like a targeted killing of Service personnel across the country has occurred in Kogi State, Northcentral Nigeria.
This latest incident involved two persons, including a naval officer, who were on Thursday shot dead by unknown gunmen on Okene -Lokoja road in Kogi State.
The state Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Police Command, CP Ayuba Ede, confirmed this to newsmen in Lokoja, saying that the incident occurred around 6p.m.
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According to him, the officer, a man and a woman were travelling in a Toyota Sienna car when they were shot by yet to be identified gunmen.
He said that the naval officer was in uniform while the woman was in mufti.
The Commissioner said that the two of them died on the spot.
Ayuba who spoke on phone said he could not give further details, saying that detectives had been despatched to the scene to gather full information.
“Yes, I heard about it and I have dispatched my men there to bring me the details of how and when it happened,” he said.
Global Sentinel had reported how two Army officers were gunned down in Rivers and Kogi States by yet to be identified gunmen respectively in less than 24 hours apart.
The Kogi State victim was one Capt. GSM Abubakar, who was shot dead by unknown gunmen on the same route on July 5.
Abubakar was travelling in his Honda car with his wife and mother when gunmen opened fire on them. He died on the spot.
