They also carted away large sums of money.
The Police Commissioner in Taraba, Alhaji Ibrahim Maishanu, who confirmed the robbery in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Jalingo on Wednesday, said the operation lasted for three hours.
He said the three banks raided by the gunmen were Zenith Bank Plc, Guarantee Trust Bank and United Bank for Africa.
In a statement, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Amos Olaoye, said the three persons were killed during a gunfight between the police and the hoodlums.
Olaoye said the robbers used explosives to attack the banks.
He said no fewer than 30 robbers also attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters and Arae Command but were prevented from gaining access to the armoury, adding that no arm was removed during the simultaneous attacks.
The Chairman, Wukari Local Government Council, Mr. Danazumi Agbu, who spoke to NAN on the telephone, said explosives and gunshots were heard from the direction of the banks late in the night.
He said the sound threw the residents, who thought Boko Haram gunmen had invaded their area, into panic.
Agbu said the area was now calm and people had started coming out to go about their daily business.
Miss Naomi Nanjo, a resident of the area, said she and several families spent their night inside the bush because they suspected the incident to be an invasion by Boko Haram.
“We returned to our houses at about 5am after confirming that they were thieves and not Boko Haram,” she said.
via Punch
http://www.punchng.com/news/bandits-kill-policeman-two-others-raid-three-banks/
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