Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Cop, 3 others killed in bullion van attack

LAGOS—Four persons including a police sergeant
and two middle-aged women were, Tuesday, killed
by a six- man robbery gang, who attacked a bullion
van at Mowo Bus-Stop on Lagos- Badagry
Expressway and carted away an unspecified
amount of money.
Six persons including three policemen were also
said to have sustained various degrees of bullet
wounds in the robbery which lasted over 30
minute.
Eyewitness told Vanguard that the robbers, who
drove a dark coloured Toyota Avalon and a jeep to
the scene around 3:30 p.m, opened fire on the
bullion van and its escort that was heading toward
Lagos and sent motorists, traders and passersby
scampering for safety.
The eye-witness told Vanguard, that "the robbers
shot indiscriminately as they engaged the police in
a gunfight. Those who couldn't escape were either
killed or injured.
"It was like a scene in a movie. The armed robbers
were all young men in their early 20s. They shot
sporadically into several directions the moment the
bullion van approached them and killed a police
sergeant who was seated in front. 'Two other
women who were passengers of a car and a
commercial bus were killed on the spot while a
little boy was also killed.
"The robbers, after opening the bullion van carted
away all the money in it before escaping through
Ado-Odo Road in their get-way jeep."
Another eyewitness, Sule Afolabi, told Vanguard
that several motorist abandoned their vehicles
while the robbery ensued while the robbers
escaped.

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