The Police Command in Cross River State has come out to attest to the death of Mr. Egbe Edum, an assistant commissioner of police, at the hands of gunmen during the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar.
The command`s Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar.
Ugbo said that the deceased, who came into the state to see his family, was killed with an axe by the gunmen on the Murtala Mohammed Highway.
Reports coming in suggests that the deceased was the Commander of the Police Mobile Force Squadron 73 in Magumeri, Borno.
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