TWO KILLED IN EDO ARMED ROBBERY ATTACK
-By Joseph Omoniyi
Two persons have been reported killed by armed robbers in an attack in Costain area of Benin city, Edo state.
According to the reports by an anonymous, the robbers robbed over eight houses in the area and inflicted injuries on anybody that does not have money to give to them, says,two persons were stabbed to death by the armed robbers.
It was also gathered that, wife of one of the victims, Mrs. Erhun Ogiorio, said she begged the robbers not to kill her husband but the robbers refused.
According to her, when they came in, one of them held a gun and the other one a knife. She told them they didn’t have money and that, her husband was a civil servant. She said, she wanted to give them phones but they stabbed her husband in the stomach and the chest.
Some other victims of the attack are currently receiving treatment.
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