Police in Bauchi State have found a corpse of a suspected armed robber and recovered 18 handsets and five laptops among others items from him at Wuntin Dada, a suburb of the town.
The spokesman for the State’s Police Command SP Ahmed Wakil confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Friday.
Wakil said the command received information Thursday that some armed men numbering seven had stormed students’ apartment at Wuntin Dada on the Jos-Bauchi Road.
He said while chasing the armed men, operatives found the corpse, suspected to be among them lying in his pool of blood
“He was evacuated to ATBU Teaching Hospital Bauchi, where the medical doctor confirmed him dead,’’ the police spokesman said.
Wakil listed other items recovered from the corpse as six audio MP3 players, two face-caps, four pairs of shoes, four wrist watches, one hat and one torchlight.
He said that the corpse had been taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation.
NAN