Warri — Three persons, suspected to be members of a gang of notorious armed bandits, were gunned down by a team of mobile policemen in Warri in the early hours of Wednesday. The hoodlums reportedly met their waterloo during a shoot-out with the policemen at the popular Marine Quarters of Warri metropolis.

THISDAY learnt that the bandits, armed with sophisticated guns, were in the process of disembarking from a taxi they boarded from Estate at about 7a.m. when they were intercepted by the policemen, who engaged the driver of the taxi, Mr. Sunday Nnamani.

While narrating his ordeal to newsmen, Nnamani disclosed that the four armed robbery suspects had asked him for a drop to Walter Odeli, in Marine Quarters, and they settled for N400.

He explained that the story changed when they got to their destination and the hoodlums demanded for N1,000 instead of paying him the agreed N400 . "When I insisted that they give me the one N1000 currency note first before I will give them their change, they dragged me out and forced me to lie face-down," he explained.

"At this point one of them (pointing to one of the dead robbers on ground) asked that I should be killed while others refused, saying since I did not argue with them, I should be allowed to go and they sped off, leaving me sprawling on the ground, " he stated.