The Police in Lagos on Wednesday killed five
suspected armed robbers and arrested one
with bullets wounds. Police sources told
newsmen in Ikeja that the suspects had
engaged policemen from Elemoro Division,
Ajah in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area in a
shootout where they were killed.

He said that five of them were killed on the
spot and one injured by bullets was
arrested. “The police in Elemoro got
information that the suspects were operating
at Abule Parapo, opposite Awoyaya in Elemoro
area of Ajah around 2 a.m.

“The suspects engaged the police in a
shootout as soon as they saw them. Two
locally made double barrel shot guns, one
cutlass and iron cutter was recovered from
them. “The gang had been terrorising
residents of Ajah, robbing and raping women,’’
the source said.

The corpses of the dead and the injured
suspects were brought to the Lagos State
Police Command headquarters, Ikeja at about
12.15 p.m. The operatives of the Special Anti-
Robbery Squad (SARS) have taken over the
case file from the Divisional Police Officer at
Elemoro, SP Sani Limawa for further
investigation.

When contacted, the command’s spokesman,
DSP Joseph Offor, said he had yet to get the
details from the division as at press time.


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