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The Police Command in Cross River State has confirmed the killing of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Egbe Edum, by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar.
The command`s Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar.
Ugbo said that the deceased, who came into the state to see his family, was killed with an axe by the gunmen on the Murtala Mohammed Highway.
Her words: “He dropped off from a public transport and had called his wife to pick him up before he was attacked by the unknown men.
“We are investigating the incident and the family has recovered the body from the scene of the tragic incident,” she said.
She reiterated that the deceased was an Assistant Commissioner of Police who served in Borno State but only came to Calabar on a visit.
“He is not serving here I think he was coming to see his family here in Cross River, he arrived in Calabar at about 1:am when the incident happened,” Irene stated
NAN reports that the deceased was the Commander of the Police Mobile Force Squadron 73 in Magumeri, Borno.
