The Police in Rivers state on Sunday gun down three men who allegedly took two hostages around Ugunabo village in Abia State.
The Rivers state Police Commissioner, Bala Hassan, said that due to the rising cases of attack and abduction of residents of Port Harcourt travelling to Aba, he had to reach an agreement with his Abia State counterpart for the Rivers State police command to deploy some men of its Anti-terrorism squad to the border between the two states.
He said at about 7am on Sunday while these men of the anti-terrorism squad were on patrol in their armored personnel carrier (APC), some hoodlums in a Mercedes Benz car suddenly opened fire on the APC, thus causing a gun battle that lasted about forty five minutes at the end of which three of the hoodlums were killed while others fled.