6 kill as police foil robbery attack in Edo bank

The police in Edo state have killed three suspects in a foiled armed robbery attack on a bank in Igarra, in Akoko Edo local government area, an official has said.
Two civilians and a police inspector, however, lost their lives in the encounter.
The Edo state Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, according to a press release sent in by the Edo state government on Friday, reportedly said that the attack was foiled by the combined force of policemen, who were on guard duty at two banks.
He said three of the armed robbers were killed during a gun duel.
While parading the bodies of the dead criminals at the State Police Headquarters, in Benin City, on Friday, he however said two civilians and a police inspector were also killed, ”when members of the gang staged a simultaneous attack at the nearest police station in the area”.
“The attack on the bank in Igarra was on Keystone Bank, and not on two banks.
“Actually, there are two banks in the vicinity, and adjacent to each other.
One is keystone Bank, the second is Unity Bank.
The marauding criminals actually attacked Keystone Bank, but they met with very stiff opposition from Policemen who were on duty at Unity Bank and Keystone Bank. “They were able to give a very good account of the stuff they are made of in a gun duel that ensued between the criminals and the policemen who were on bank guard duty. Three of the criminals were gunned down.
Here you see them with their operational weapons recovered,” he added.
On reports that the criminals attacked a police station in Igarra, he said, “Criminals will always evolve different means of perpetuating their acts.