A member of a-four-man masked gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members, was shot dead on Sunday by a vigilant riot policeman along Kachia Road, Ungwan Yelwa area of the Kaduna.
According to reports, the masked gunmen had earlier beaten a police checkpoint at Ba-rnawa junction while the riot policemen embarked on a chase to arrest them.
Eyewitnesses disclosed that “about four masked people driving inside a Peugeot 206 with tinted glasses were being chased by the police who caught up with them around here…as the police blocked the suspects’ vehicles, one of them fired into the air, probably to scare the policemen, but one of the policemen opened fire on the driver and killed him instantly.”
The other three members of the gang ran out of the vehicle and fled through a nearby bush.
The incident led to a panic amongst residents and motorists in the area, eyewitnesses said the people ran in different directions shouting, “Boko Haram o!, Boko Haram o!, Boko Haram o!, please help us oh!.
On responding to the incident, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, denied that the armed men were Boko Haram members, saying they are armed robbers.
