A vehicle conveying cash was double crossed at Rumuola by two gun totting lads who shot to death all occupants of the car before carting away an undisclosed amount of money.
Eye witness reports suggest it happened around the College of Arts and Science when about 3 hoodlums firing sporadically into the air accosted a grayish Volkswagen Jetta car firing upon its passengers; a police man, a woman and the driver before making off with an undisclosed amount of money.
"There were three of them involved in the operation," the eye witness told wezinareports.blogspot.com under the condition of anonymity.
"There were three of them involved in the operation," the eye witness told wezinareports.blogspot.com under the condition of anonymity.
"Two men, one in front and another behind as well as a woman who remained in the car shooting in the air.
"I was upstairs in my friend's office and saw everything from where I was," he continued.
"As soon as they got there, one of them started shooting in the air for almost a minute and that caused pandemonium with drivers jumping out of their cars running for cover.
"That also meant that traffic was at a standstill and the car they were chasing had nowhere to go. It was at this point the opened fire on the car killing everyone in it.
"One of them now went in the car, grabbed the bag of money, dumped it in their own car and while they moved he stayed behind shooting in the air until the road was cleared before he jumped into the car and they sped off."
The victims of the attack are said to have died instantly while an unlucky bystander who got struck by a bullet had been rushed to the hospital.
"I was upstairs in my friend's office and saw everything from where I was," he continued.
"As soon as they got there, one of them started shooting in the air for almost a minute and that caused pandemonium with drivers jumping out of their cars running for cover.
"That also meant that traffic was at a standstill and the car they were chasing had nowhere to go. It was at this point the opened fire on the car killing everyone in it.
"One of them now went in the car, grabbed the bag of money, dumped it in their own car and while they moved he stayed behind shooting in the air until the road was cleared before he jumped into the car and they sped off."
The victims of the attack are said to have died instantly while an unlucky bystander who got struck by a bullet had been rushed to the hospital.
People are of the opinion that this group may be the same that kept Port Harcourt under siege for most of October and November.
That group specialized in robbing banks and bullion vans but the Rivers State Police P.R.O, Ben Ugbuegbulam in a press briefing in November said they killed two members of that group in a shoot-out while the woman got away.
