couple killed a day to their wedding

Five persons in­cluding a bride­groom billed to wed yesterday and a police orderly were shot dead by ram­paging robbers in Enu­gu last Friday night.
The gunmen who robbed Genuine Petrol Station in the Trans Ekulu part of the capital city killed the man­ager of the fuel station.
Also killed at the fuel sta­tion was a man identified as Uzochukwu Eze who was billed to wed yesterday at the St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Trans Ekulu, Enu­gu.
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.