No fewer than two suspected armed robbers have lost their lives while attempting to snatch a Prado Jeep at gunpoint in the Jahi area of the Federal Capital Territory.

The Commissioner of Police in Abuja, Benneth Igweh, disclosed this to newsmen while parading two arrested members of the robbery gang at the command in Abuja on Friday.

According to Igweh, the suspects were killed around 10:45 pm on Thursday, when a four-man robbery engaged the operatives who were on crime prevention patrol led by the DPO of the Mabushi police division in a fierce gun battle.

The Commissioner of Police revealed that a four-man robbery gang, on sighting the police operatives, opened fire, which resulted in a gun duel where two among the robbers were neutralized.

He said, “While during the crossfire with our men, two among the four-men robbery gang whose names were identified as Joshua Godfrey A.K.A. Dogo and Abdulsalam Mamuda both of Mabushi village were arrested,” he said.

He said a blue Toyota Matrix operational vehicle with registration. No. BWR 626 JB, was recovered from the robbers.

Igweh, however, said the two arrested suspects subsequently led police operatives to the recovery of another Toyota Corolla car with registration number RBC 743 AH*, which must have been snatched from an innocent resident.

The police commissioner, while reaffirming the command’s unflinching commitment to ensuring the safety and security of lives and properties, urged residents and all medical facilities in FCT to be on watch out and to call the attention of the police to anybody sighted with bullet wounds.