Police To Wear Black Arm Bands To Mourn Slain Officers.

The IG of Police has directed all Police officers in the country to wear black arm band for a period of 1 week as a mark of honour to their colleagues killed in Bayelsa, Borno and Nasarawa states or elsewhere. The Department of State Security, DSS, also said it had deployed a search and rescue team to determine the number of its officers involved.
Policemen so far recovered were being moved to the Dalhatu Specialist Hospital Lafia, mortuary.
Crowds of sympathizers and relations of victims wept openly on the streets as the bodies of the slain officers were being conveyed in trucks to the mortuary.