2 Persons Reportedly Dead , Another Sad News Calabar (Graphic Photos)

Two different robbery attacks which occurred at about
1pm in University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH)
and another at about 5:25 in Express Supermarket
located at Mount Zion street all in Calabar , capacity city
of Cross River have left two people dead .
Narrating the attack in UCTH, an eye witness said that
the robbers numbering about four who were fiercely
masked and armed with dangerous weapons , attacked
staff of United Bank of Africa , UBA who were loading
money on the Hospital ATM.
According to the source, a staff of the hospital who
didn’t want her name in print as she was not authorized
to speak on the issue , the bank driver who refused to
corporate with the robbers was shot and died at about
3pm in the emergency ward of the hospital .
“ Yesterday was hell for us. At about 1pm , over four
fiercely masked robbers with dangerous weapons
attacked UBA staff operating the bank ATM attached to
UCTH and catered away with all the money they came to
refill the machine.
“ Their driver who was not willing to corporate was shot
and he died at the emergency ward of the hospital at
about 3pm yesterday” .
The source said that no facility of the hospital or patient
was attacked in the incident .
In the same development, there was another robbery
attack in Express Supermarket located at Mount Zion
street , Calabar South Local Government Area which
reportedly claimed one life .
When our reporter visited the place , a staff of the
supermarket who was unwilling to speak on the issue
and refused to give his name said that, they were
robbed on Monday night at about 7:15 with cash and
goods worth millions of naira catered away.
The source who refused to confirm the death of the
person shot however said that their manager was shot
on his stomach because he attempted to challenge the
robbers .
According to him , “ This is not the best time for me to
talk about an this and besides, we have been warned not
to give information anyhow. So what I can confirm to
you now is that we were robbed and we lost goods and
cash worth millions of naira.
On the casualty level , he said that, “ Yes our manager
was shot on his stomach and that’s all I can tell you
now ”.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations
Officer , Irene Ugbo confirmed the incidents .
She said , “ Yes it has been confirmed that the UBA driver
died in the robbery attack yesterday . For the want in
Mount Zion, I can’ t confirm if the was casualty or not but
there was a robbery attack in the supermarket around
the area on Monday night” .