A staff of a new generation bank has been shot dead by high-way robbers when they attacked a bullion van conveying money from Aba to Umuahia on Tuesday around Ntigha junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.
The robbers were said to have carted away undisclosed sum of cash from the bullion van before fleeing the scene.
One of the robbers was, however, gunned down by a rapid response team of police sent to the scene following a distress call.
Confirming the incident, the Abia State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Geoffrey Ogbonna, said the robbers ambushed the bullion van at the expressway and opened fire at them immediately they approached the junction and shot dead the cash officer of the bank accompanying the billion van as he attempted to escape for dear life.
He also added that three police personnel escorting to van were injured during exchange of fire, and have been taken to the hospital while the deceased have been deposited in a morgue.
While speaking on the items gotten from the robbers Ogbonna said that an AK47 rifle with three loaded magazines strapped together were recovered
The PPRO however urged members of the public to volunteer information to the police about anyone with bullet wounds around their vicinity.