A bank manager was on Wednesday evening shot dead by unknown assailants who waylaid him at the Garrison/Trans-Amadi  Road junction where they riddled him with bullets before taking to their heels.

Several accounts were given about the incident  by eyewitnesses, but our reporter who arrived the scene shortly after the shooting gathered that the bank manager whose name was given as Mr Kunle was driving home in a jeep after work when he met his tragic death. 

According to one account,  Mr Kunle was  caught in a traffic jam at the Garrison junction, few metres away from his office when the gunmen  numbering about three blocked his vehicle and opened fire on him through his wound-up glasses.

According to the source the assailants had parked their vehicle close to the junction where they laid ambush for the bank manger before intercepting him.

Sensing that their action would attract the attention of members of the public the assailants shot sporadically into the air sending people scampering for their dear lives before they fled in their vehicles.

It was after the murderers had fled that efforts were made by Good Samaritans to help the bank chief who had slumped in the pool of his blood.

His body was moved to an unknown mortuary by 8.30 pm after the police rushed and barricaded the scene and later towed his jeep away.

Confirming the incident Rivers State Police Commissioners, Suleiman Abba told newsmen t hat the gunmen rode on a motorbike and are yet to be apprehended.

He stated that the police was yet to determine the motive behind the killing of the bank manager since investigations have just begun on the matter.