Some gunmen on Tuesday attacked a
police team taking some murder suspects to prison in Ilesa.
The Osun State police command
said three murder suspects lost their lives while the gunmen escaped with
gunshot wounds.
According to the spokesperson of
the command, SP Yemisi Oplalola, the police team were attacked after the
Osunjela River, along Osogbo/Ilesa Road, when the vehicle taking the murder
suspects to Ilesa prison developed mechanical fault.
“As the nearby Mechanics were
working on the vehicle, four armed men emerged from Osunjela Road on a Bajaj
Motorcycle and attacked the Police team by firing sporadically in a bid to
hijack suspects,” he said.
The hoodlums, according to
Opalola, abandoned their Motorcycle, three locally made guns, one pump action,
two cut to size barrel guns with 14 live cartridges.
“Three murder suspects sustained
several degrees of injuries and later died at Asubiaro hospital in Osogbo and
deposited in the same hospital morgue. The hoodlums fled into the bush with
bullet wounds,” she said.
She said that the police in
collaboration with the local security outfits and the youths of the community
are combing the bush for possible arrest of the fleeing suspects.
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