Gunmen kill couple in Bauchi

Armed robbers last week Thursday killed a Pastor and his wife, Obi and Ebere Williams in Bayan Garin area, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis. According to reports, the couple, who are both from the South East, were killed as Ebere went about her job as a thrift collector.

Bauchi state police spokesperson, DSP Haruna Mohammed said the gunmen accosted the couple while on the road, snatched the money Ebere collected from her customers as daily contributions and then shot the couple...

"Police detectives attached to the Estate Division rushed to the scene and evacuated Williams and his wife to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching hospital, ATBUTH, Bauchi where they were certified dead on arrival by doctors. The exhibit recovered from the scene of the crime was an expanded ammunition of 7.62 mm and efforts are ongoing to apprehend the perpetrators of the dastardly act”he said