Six people, three female, one male and two children at the weekend escaped death by the whiskers following a false report made to the police that they were armed robbers.

It was gathered that the four adults, Sekinat Sanni, F; Wasiu Balogun, M; Bisola Balogun, F; and Rukayat Joseph F, and the two little children Sameer Balogun and Motunrayo Joseph of one and two year old respectively, all members of the same family were on a social outing when one woman, identified as Lauretta Ehon, informed a RRS patrol at about 5:30 pm that they were armed robbers and that they just snatched her Toyota Camry car 2012.

Following the report, the patrol team immediately embarked on a pursuit of the supposed fleeing robbers.

According to reports, due to the heavy traffic on the Ogudu-Ori-Oke road where the incident happened, one of the police officers attached to the patrol, Christian Onawona, alighted from the patrol Vehicle and mounted a motor bike to chase the supposed fleeing robbers.

It was gathered that in order to prevent the assumed robbers from escaping, the officer fired a warning shot which prompted the driver of the vehicle with registration number, EP 932 KRD to stop.

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