A police officer, identified as Inspector Nelson Abuante reportedly commit suicide after he mistakenly kill a colleague, Inspector Monday Gbaramana during an attempt to arrest a suspect in Rivers State.

Wakadaily learnt that the officers attached to Taabaa Division were said to have gone to Nyogor-Lueku, Khana Local Government Area of the state to arrest, Akere Akpobari over some complain made against him by his mother.

It was reported that after Akere resisted the arrest, him and the two Inspectors got into a fight.

“In the course of the altercation, Inspector Nelson Abuante mistakenly shot Gbaramana and he sustained serious injuries. So, Abuante and Akere’s mother tried to rush the injured officer to the hospital.

“But, on the way to the hospital, the car conveying them ran out of fuel and Inspector Monday died in the process,” a source said.

“Immediately Abuante discovered that his colleague had died, he carried his gun and shot himself to death.”

The bodies of the deceased had been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.