Suspected armed robbers on Tuesday shot dead three persons in banks raid in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government of Kwara State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports
that armed robbers raided three banks in the town, killing three
persons and escaped with an unspecified amount of money.
NAN reports that sporadic gun
shots and sound of dynamite were heard at about 6pm in an operation
that lasted for more than an hour in the town.
An eyewitness told NAN that the
armed robbers, numbering about 20, first attacked the police station and
the barrack, demobilising the police Armoured Personnel Carrier and
cars packed outside.
The armed robbers thereafter invaded
three banks all located on Aperan Way in the town, using grenades and
dynamite to break their doors and vaults.
The lifeless body of an unidentified worker of one of the banks and a driver were seen lying in the pool of their blood.
Also a member of a vigilance group in the town was also shot dead by the robbers.
Meanwhile, youths in the town, in their
hundreds, stormed the Omu-Aran police station and the Area Commander’s
office to protest against the incident.
A police patrol vehicle was set ablaze by the angry youths while the police had to respond with tear gas to disperse them.
The Divisional Police Officer in
Omu-Aran, Mr. Razak Adebayo, who confirmed the incident and the death,
told NAN that the police had started taking stock of the attack on the
banks.
He said the armed robbers attacked the
station and the barrack at about 6pm when his men were exchanging their
rifles and duties.
He said the tyres of the APC and cars were deflated in the process by the robbers.
NAN
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so, what is now the police blame?
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