Three policemen feared killed in Delta, Ondo checkpoints

<p>Two yet-to-be-identified policemen attached to the Dragon Patrol Team were feared killed as gunmen shot them at their checkpoint along the Ughelli-Asaba Road by the Oleh roundabout, in Delta State, on Sunday.</p>, <p>A commercial driver who narrowly escaped death in the incident, however, said he could not confirm if the two policemen died as a result of the attack but that the police patrol van was set on fire.</p>, <p>He said by the time he and others came out of the bush where they ran into, another police van had been brought to the location to take the victims away.</p>, <p>The state Police Public Relations Officer Command, DSP Bright Edafe could not be reached for comments on the incident as of the time of filing this report.</p>, <p>Meanwhile, the Ondo State Police Command said a driver who crushed a policeman to death at a checkpoint along the Benin-Owo Expressway at the Ifon area of the Ose Local Government Area of the state on Sunday had been arrested.</p>, <p>According to the police, the driver was arrested by the men of the Nigeria Army at Sobe in Edo State.</p>, <p>The command, however, denied an earlier report that the cop was killed by suspected kidnappers.</p>, <p>The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the death of the policeman, declared that it was a case of hit-and-run and not kidnapping.</p>, <p>She said, “While policemen were trying to stop the driver of a suspected vehicle, he didn’t stop. So, our men were alerted on the highway, but on getting to a particular place around Ifon, the driver swerved and hit an ASP and the officer died immediately.</p>, <p>“The driver, was, however, pursued and fortunately for us he (the driver) was arrested by the military men at Sobe in Edo State.”</p>, <p>A 53 seconds viral video showed the scene of the incident and the deceased lying on the road in a pool of blood.</p>, <p>He was also seen with a head injury while his colleagues carried his lifeless body into a police van.</p>