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ARMED ROBBERS SHOT DEAD 6 YEAR OLD SCHOOL GIRL, POLICEMAN IN BANK ROBBERY OPERATION

The robbers, witnesses said, besieged the bank and operated for over 30 minutes, having arrived the town in green camouflage uniform and shot sporadically into the air, while many residents burst into tears, on sighting the corpses of the victims.

Penpushing further reports that, an official of the affected bank who spoke under anonymity said, “a policeman was killed with a small girl sitting beside the bank. There are some shops behind the bank, so the policeman was sitting in front of the shop with one small five-year-old girl. I think they targeted the policeman but the small girl, unfortunately, had shared part of the bullet. Two of them died,”.

The Ekiti State Police Command, Public Relations Officer, Caleb Ikechukwu, said the armed robbers gained entrance to the bank using a phylum explosive, adding, “there was a robbery attack on the commercial institution in Oye-Ekiti’.

‘We are still investigating on that (number of casualties) as soon as I have confirmation I will issue a statement in regards to the incident. The armed robbers were dressed in a green camouflage uniform. They gained entrance into the bank with the use of phylum explosive,” the police spokesperson said.

 

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