Armed robbers lay siege to Onitsha to Death.

The incident, it was gathered had sent the police back to the drawing board on how to stem the rising tide of armed robbery attacks that had rocked the city since Sunday evening as not less than four robbery attacks had been witnessed in the city in three days. According to Daily Sun source, the robbers attacked a Total petrol station along Awka Road  Onitsha between 2.00am and 3.00am yesterday morning and stole gallons of engine oil estimated at about N700, 000 before breaking the company’s vault and made away with about N800,000.
It was gathered that the armed robbers came to the station in two buses and parked outside the petrol station before going inside the station to start their operations. The source further disclosed that when the security operatives at the station wanted to find out their identities, they were over powered and were tied to an electric pole at the station before carting away drums of oil.
According to the source who pleaded anonymity, “After parking the oil inside the buses, the robbers broke into the manager’s office where they broke the safe and took all the money there which was about N800,000.” The source narrated. In a related development, another group of armed robbers, Tuesday afternoon, killed a vigilance group boss and critically injured another member of the vigilance group.
It was gathered that the robbers had successfully robbed a bureau de change office along Men ax road in the commercial city when they ran into the vigilance group. The robbers were said to have operated with motor bikes and were escaping through the New Cemetery road when they saw the unsuspecting vigilance group in their patrol vehicle and opened fire on them.