The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has disclosed more details about the deadly attack carried out by bandits on June 13, 2025, in the Yelewata community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. He said the bandits first attacked the police station in the community, not knowing that extra officers had already been sent there earlier by the Commissioner of Police.
In a video shared by TV Platinum from 13:13, Egbetokun said the police were able to kill two of the bandits during a gun battle. However, he said some of the bandits still went into the community and attacked innocent people.
Egbetokun said that 49 people lost their lives in total, but made it clear that two of them were the bandits who were killed during the fight with the police. He said the remaining 47 victims were innocent villagers who were brutally murdered during the attack.
In Egbetokun’s words: “When these bandits came they first of all attacked the police station in that community, unknown to them that police has been reinforced previously by the commissioner of police so they met resistance. They were repelled at the police station. In the course of exchange of fire between the bandits and the police, two of the bandits were neutralized in that incident”
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