Police Kills Kidnapping Gang kingpin in rivers state
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that the men of the Bori Police Station last night, in a coordinated Operation trailed one 35 year-old Linus Lebari, popularly known as ‘BOBBY’ also known as “DEVIL” from Tekon Sogho in Khana Local government Area of the State, to their hideout in a forest at Okwale, The boundary between Rivers and Abia State.
According to the Policce, The hoodlums on noticing irregular movements around their camp, started shooting randomly but in a return fire from the Police, one of them was fatally wounded, who was later identified to be Linus Lebari from Tekon Sogho, the leader of the kidnapping Gang responsible for all the attacks on the Ogoni axis of the East/West Road and whose gang has killed over 30 people in the two Local Government Areas of Khana and Gokana, after collecting ransom. Sadly, two Police Officers sustained gunshot wounds during the operation and are "currently responding to treatment while one locally made pistol and some cartridges were recovered. Efforts are on to arrest other gang members who fled with gunshot wounds."
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