Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers on Friday shot dead a middle- aged man identified as Emmanuel Omomo and carted away his money in Bayelsa State .
It was gathered that the incident happened at 10 am within the premises of a bank around the Sani Abacha Expressway in Yenagoa where Omomo had gone to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money .
After withdrawing the money , he was said to have entered a tricycle which he allegedly arranged to take him to his destination when the robbers , four in number struck .
It was learnt that soon after he went into the tricycle , the criminals who had been allegedly lurking around , pulled up and blocked the tricycle .
An eyewitness, who claimed to be in the bank premises at the time of the incident but pleaded not to be mentioned , said that after the blockade , the bandits ordered Omomo to hand over the bag containing the money to them .
He said , “ The bank customer refused to release the bag containing the money , a situation which reportedly angered the robbers.
“ When they tried to forcefully take the bag from Omomo , he refused and ran out of the tricycle to the bank premises towards the queue.
“ it was at that point that the infuriated robbers pursued their victim and shot him several times .
“ The robbers , who were allegedly armed with AK 47 rifles shot indiscriminately to scare other customers in the queue and escaped in a waiting vehicle . ”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command , Mr Asinim Butswat , said the police authorities in the state had launched a manhunt for the unidentified gunmen who shot the bank customer in Yenagoa .
He said , “ The unfortunate incident occurred on July 3 , 2020 , at about 1000 hours , on the premises of a new generation bank in Yenagoa when a customer was accosted by gunmen after he withdrew money .
“ The armed robbers who came in a black Toyota Camry car accosted the customer one Emmanuel Omomo ‘ m ’ , when he came out of the bank after making the withdrawals , shot him , collected all the money in his possession and zoomed off.
“ The victim was immediately rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa , where he was confirmed dead . ”
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