Two passengers of Young Shall
Grow Motors were reportedly killed by armed robbers during a robbery operation
along the Benin-Ore road on Friday, July 7.
It was gathered that a driver
with Ezewanta Transport Service and his conductor were also shot and injured by
the robbers.
Luxurious bus drivers barricaded
the road at the Okada axis of the Benin- Ore road over the killing. Road users
were stranded for several hours.
A driver with Complete Sport
newspaper, Sulaman Tajudeen, said the drivers blocked the road in protest
against the killing during a robbery operation on the road.
According to him, the armed
robbers blocked the road at about 1pm and were there till 3am,
disposing passengers of their belongings.
However, the spokesperson for the
Edo State Police Command, Moses Nkombe, said one person was killed in the
robbery.
“A bus conductor was killed when
the robbers shot a bus which refused to stop for them,” he said.
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