In Kogi, armed robbers attack banks, killing two.

In Anyigba, Kogi State’s Dekina Local Government Area, gunmen attacked two commercial banks; one security guard and one civilian were killed in the process.

According to a video going viral on social media, the two financial institutions were heavily attacked by the thugs at approximately five o’clock in the evening, according to Channels TV.

Witness accounts also stated that there were intermittent shootings and attacks on the town’s First Bank, Access Bank, and police station, where the armed robbers were allegedly seen carteling away an undisclosed sum of money.

When the robbers first arrived in the town, they attacked the police station on Anyigba-Idah Road and murdered a police officer who went by the name Idoko.

According to the source, the deceased police officer had recently been moved to the

station, and hailed from Iyale, a neighbouring town in the same local government area.

Also killed in the attack, according to the source, is a man, popularly known as Alagama who sells petty items at the roundabout in Anyigba a few metres from the scene of the incident. He was said to have been killed by a stray bullet during the operation.

The eyewitness also revealed that the gunmen trailed the bullion van of the Access Bank to their office at Anyigba where they disarmed the security details before carting away all the money.

Another group said to be members of the hoodlums also invaded First Bank in the town and made away with an unspecified amount of money

Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Kogi State Police Command, SP William Aya, did not respond to calls or texts sent to him over the incident.