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Gunmen person killed a erstwhile Chief Security Officer of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Letam Kine.
Kine was said to person been changeable dormant on Polytechnic Road, Bori, successful Khana LGA astir 6 p.m. on Sunday.
Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Blessing Agabe, confirmed the incidental to journalists successful Port Harcourt on Monday.
According to Agabe, the gunmen fled the country earlier information operatives arrived, portion the victim’s assemblage was deposited successful a mortuary.
The constabulary spokesperson disclosed that the assemblage would beryllium preserved pending autopsy, arsenic constabulary launched investigations to found the circumstances surrounding the killing.
“The Rivers State Police Command has launched a afloat probe to place and bring the perpetrators to justice,” she said.
She urged Kine’s household to formally study the incidental to the constabulary to facilitate investigations and the medication of justness and reaffirmed the command’s committedness to identifying, arresting and prosecuting each those connected with the killing.
Reacting to the incident, Khana Local Government Chairman, Chief Thomas Bariere, condemned the attack, describing it arsenic a senseless enactment of violence.
Bariere further described Kine’s execution arsenic heartbreaking, saying specified unit had nary spot successful a peaceful and law-abiding society.
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