Gunmen kills Assistant Commissioner of Police in Calabar.

The command`s Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar.

Ugbo said that the deceased, who came into the state to see his family, was killed with an axe by the gunmen on the Murtala Mohammed Highway.

Before his death, the deceased was the Commander of the Police Mobile Force Squadron 73 in Magumeri, Borno.