Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Death of suspected armed robber/recovery of arms & ammunition

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On April 11th, 2016 at about 2.30pm, 3 armed hoodlums on motorcycle allegedly entered Matrix Stores, Abule-Ado, Satellite and robbed the owner of phones. However, a patrol team attached to Satellite Div., was quickly mobilized to the scene to engage the hoodlums.

In the process,  one of the robbers was shot in the leg and a double barrel gun with two unexpended cartridges and all the robbed phones were recovered. The wounded hoodlum allegedly fell off the  motorcycle while they were escaping and was burnt to death by angry mob before he could be rescued while others escaped. Meanwhile, effort is in progress to arrest other fleeing hoodlums.