Olu Samuel, Lokoja

The Kogi state Police Command has lost two officers when a patrol team was attacked on Wednesday by yet to be identified gunmen.

The commands public relations officer,SP William Aya in a statement the unfortunate attack on the Police patrol team occurred along Agbaja road, Lokoja where the hoodlums emerged from the bush and attacked the team when they arrived for their routine patrol.

“However, the Command lost two of its personnel during the gun duel with the hoodlums as they fled before the re-enforcement team arrived.”Aya stated.

According to him,”The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Police Command, CP Akeem A. Yusuf, immediately deployed a team of tactical operatives to the area while trailing the hoodlums to apprehend and bring them to book.

The Commissioner was said to have further directs the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Investigation to commence investigation into the incident.

The Commissioner of Police also uses this medium to call on the people of the area to assist the Police with credible information on the identity of the hoodlums to enable the Command to curtail their act of criminality.