ROBBERS DISGUISED AS PASSENGERS..HIJACKED LUXURIOUS BUS @ UMUNEDE

The Dragon Patrol Team of the Delta State Police Command yesterday rescued a luxury bus hijacked by a five-man armed robbery gang. 

It was gathered that the robbers disguised as passengers, boarded the bus from Lagos before hijacking the bus at gunpoint on Benin-Asaba Expressway.

DSP Celestina Kalu, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), who confirmed the incident,said on sighting the police, the robbers jumped down from the bus and escaped into the bush. She said: “Our men sighted the bus on Ibusa/Ogwashi-Uku Road entering into a lonely track road. The team suspected the movement and traced the vehicle. The hoodlums sighted the police and jumped down from the bus and escaped into the bush.

“The driver of the vehicle and the passengers were rescued and taken to Ibusa Police Station where they revealed that five armed men unknowingly boarded the bus as passengers from Lagos. “On getting to Umunede, a neighbouring town to Agbor in Delta State, took over the bus and started robbing the passengers. The interception of the police aborted their other intended heinous act.”

In the bus were over 80 passengers from Lagos State, travelling for Christmas to the South-East.