The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Kennedy Idirisu, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Lafia. The Police Command in Nasarawa State on Monday said two of its officers were killed by gunmen along the Akwanga -Keffi federal highway.The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Kennedy Idirisu, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia.According to Idrisu, the policemen were stationed at Kubere village, some few kilometers away from Gudi, along the Akwanga-Keffi highway, when the gunmen attacked them from the bush, killing two of them.He said the command had deployed officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad and the mobile police detachment alongside the vigilance group to comb the forest for the suspected assassins.He said the spot had been identified as a flashpoint for kidnapping and other nefarious crimes, hence the decision by the command to station its officers in the area.
