{"id":154428,"date":"2025-03-09T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-kill-robbery-suspect-in-adamawa"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:44:06","slug":"police-kill-robbery-suspect-in-adamawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-kill-robbery-suspect-in-adamawa","title":{"rendered":"Police kill robbery suspect in Adamawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>One suspect was killed on Saturday in Yola, Adamawa State, when a six-member gang engaged police operatives who were called to the scene where they were robbing people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Command received a distress call from a concerned citizen reporting that about six armed Shila Boys were attacking and robbing innocent citizens of their mobile phones and other valuables around Jimeta Bypass, near Yan Rake Market, Yola North LGA,\u201d the Adamawa State Police Command explained.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Saturday evening, the command said it rushed to the scene to repel the reported armed robbery attack being carried out by the gang of Shila Boys.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by the command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Suleiman Nguroje, the statement recalled that upon receiving the report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Morris, immediately deployed the command\u2019s Anti-Shila Squad to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn sighting our men, the hoodlums, in a bid to resist arrest, launched an attack, hurling stones at the police and damaging the windscreen of a police patrol vehicle,\u201d Nguroje stated.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was during the confrontation that one of the suspects was neutralised, while the others escaped.<\/p>\n<p>He listed items recovered from the scene as one cutlass, one pair of scissors, and a large quantity of illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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