Some daredevil robbers attacked some policemen at checkpoints in Enugu State while they were sleeping.
According to a Punch Newspaper report, the gang stabbed three policemen and carted away their Ak-47 rifles.
The robbers, who were said to have operated in a tricycle otherwise known as ‘keke’, also set a patrol vehicle ablaze.
The incident took place along Enugu-Nsukka Road by Ugwuojo Nike on Tuesday, during the enforcement of the partial lockdown in the state to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic.
A source on Friday said the hoodlums, who were clad in black dresses, first attacked a police checkpoint at Ekwegbe where a policeman, identified simply as Inspector James, was stabbed in the chest.
On getting to the next checkpoint along Enugu-Nsukka Road where the operatives of the Federal Safer Highway Patrol Team blocked the road, the hoodlums reportedly attacked the two policemen on duty with daggers and dispossessed them of their AK-47 rifles.
The source said the Federal Safer Highway team comprised four policemen, two of whom were attacked while they were sleeping.
“The hoodlums went away with the service rifles of the two policemen and set the operational van stationed at the checkpoint ablaze,” he added.
Our correspondent also reliably gathered that the attacked policemen were later taken to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
