BREAKING: Gunmen behead Divisional Police Officer in South-south Nigeria

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The police have confirmed the incident.

Gunmen, suspected to be cultists, have beheaded Bako Angbashim, the divisional police officer in charge of Ahoada in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria.PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the officer, a superintendent of police, was beheaded by suspected members of Iceland cult group in Odemude, a community in the council area.

In the clip, seen by PREMIUM TIMES, the gunmen chanted victory songs while the officer’s remains littered the ground. The police spokesperson said the DPO was shot and killed after his fellow police team members exhausted their ammunition during a shoot-out with the cult group Mrs Iringe-Koko said thick darkness at that time prevented some officers and military reinforcement team from recovering the DPO’s body from the hoodlums.

 

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