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Edo bank robbery: Police recover N37m, 5 abandoned vehicles

The Edo State Police Command has confirmed that some monies suspected to be carted away by robbers during Thursday’s armed robbery attacks on some banks in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state, have been recovered.

TheState Commissioner of Police, Phillip Ogbadu, confirmed this in a phone interview with NAN on Friday.

Ogbadu said that about N37 million and five cars suspected to have been used by the robbers were recovered at a bush where they were abandoned.

He noted that it was suspected that the robbers might have abandoned the monies and the vehicles on realising that the police were on their trail.

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It would be recalled that the armed robbers had late Thursday evening carried out what many persons had termed coordinated armed robbery attacks on some commercial banks in Uromi.

The operations according to some eyewitnesses lasted for more than two hours.

The Edo Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu, had earlier on Friday paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to Uromi.

TheStar

Segun Ojo

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