Police begin manhunt for gunmen who killed policeman, abducted German

Crack detectives from the Kano State
Police Command have embarked on a
manhunt for the fleeing gunmen who
killed a Police sergeant and abducted
a German national , Mr. Michael
Cremza, an employee of Dantata &
Sawoe Construction Company , Kano .
The Police sergeant was killed by a
five - man gang on motorbike who
ambushed and opened fire on a
vehicle conveying Dantata & Sawoe
Construction workers to a site at about
7 .45 am on Monday.
During the attack , which occurred on
Sabon Titi Madobi Road , Kano, the
gunmen killed a Police sergeant ,
attached to the Special Protection Unit
on escort duty.
In the process , according to a
statement issued by the spokesman of
the Kano State Police Command , SP
Musa Magaji Majiya, the gunmen
abducted a German national working
with the company , Mr Michael Cremza.
In a swift reaction, the State
Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Yusuf ,
hurriedly assembled a crack team of
Police detectives and deployed them to
cordon off the scene of the incident,
with a mandate to comb and arrest the
fleeing gunmen .
To this end, the Police Command urged
any person with useful information on
the whereabouts of the fleeing gunmen
to report to the nearest Police Station
or call its Emergency Telephone lines :
08032419754 , 08123821575 .