A bride has been left desolate with sadness after armed robbers shot dead her husband-to-be in her presence, Friday, a day to their wedding at Genuine Petrol Station in the Trans Ekulu, Enugu.
Four others persons including a police orderly were shot dead and the manager of the fuel station were also killed by the rampaging robbers.
The bridegroom was identifies as Uzochukwu Eze who was billed to wed Saturday at the St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Trans Ekulu, Enugu.
Witnesses said the groom in company with his bride stopped to buy fuel on the way to drop a woman who brought a gift to the couple and took excuse that she would not be able to attend the wedding ceremony.
The woman who was seated at the front of the car with the bridegroom was also shot dead by the trigger-happy robbers.
As the robbers were escaping through NOWAS/ Nike Lake Road, they also shot and killed a police orderly attached to the wife of the Chairman of Nkanu West Local Government Area.
The police orderly was said to have alighted from the vehicle to help ease traffic, which was building up at the Timber Market end of the road when the robbers disarmed and rained bullets on him.
The Nkanu West Council Chairman, Mr. Afam Okereke, who spoke to with us on phone, described the orderly identified simply as Amba Ununowo as a very close friend who discharged his duties creditably.
Okereke said they were coming from an event when the victim decided to assist in easing the traffic.
Reacting to the incident, the Enugu Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu said: “Robbers were not really on the rampage, but there was an incident, which allegedly brought about the death of some people by suspected hoodlums who shot sporadically before the arrival of security operatives.”
He said measures were on ground to unmask the hoodlums.