Spokesman of the Command, DSP NNAMDI OMONI in a statement said men of the Bori Police Station led by the DPO in a coordinated Operation trailed DEVIL who is from Tekon Sogho in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, to their hideout in a forest at Okwale.
DSP OMONI stated that on noticing irregular movements around their camp, the hoodlums started shooting randomly but in a return fire from the Police, one of them LINUS LEBARI who is DEVIL, was fatally wounded.
The state added that LEBARI is 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 thirty people in the two LGAs of Khana and Gokana, after collecting ransom.
The command added that two Police Officers sustained gunshot wounds and are currently responding to treatment while one locally made Pistol and some Cartridges were recovered.
