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Police in Benue arrest 4 suspects from bank robbery

Police in Benue arrest 4 suspects from bank robbery 

Security operatives have arrested four more persons involved in a bloody robbery in 5 banks in Otukpo, Benue State.

Neptune Prime reports that some armed men with the use of explosives and sophisticated weapons, Friday afternoon stormed and robbed selected commercial banks in Otukpo, the headquarters of Benue South District in an operation that lasted about one hour.

READ ALSO: Panic as robbers invade banks in Benue, residents run for safety

The robbers before attacking the police station in the area, had raided some banks including First Bank, United Bank for Africa, Zenith Bank, Access and Stanbic Bank and carted away unverified amount of money.

But in a recent development, Joint Security Forces arrested four of the suspects involved in the bloody robbery which left 8 persons including Police DPO dead along Otukpo Taraku road.

In a statement on Saturday by the Benue State Police Command spokesman, Catherine Anene, earlier, she explained that security operatives intercepted the robbers along Otukpo-Taraku road and killed two of them.

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