CRIME & COURT

Robbers raid gadgets market, shoot trader dead

Armed robbers, on Wednesday, invaded a gadgets market, located in Abeokuta, Ogun state, killing a trader Dayo Bankole.

The eight-man daytime robbers shot sporadically upon entering the market, leaving traders and buyers running for their lives. While the robbers were making their escape, the daring traders gave them a chase and successfully arrested one of them.

The police, in a reaction to the incident, said the robbery took place around 5:30 p.m; he added the criminals made away with “expensive phones.”

He said, “The armed robbery gang numbering about eight, stormed the market popularly known as “TARMARC,” said Ogun police spokesperson Abimbola Oyeyemi.

He explained that a police team from Ibara divisional headquarters, responded to the distress call.

“On sighting the policemen, the robbers engaged them in gun battle, but due to the superior firepower of the policemen, the hoodlums took to their heels.

“They were hotly chased and with the assistance of the market men, one of the robbers later identified as Adeniji Sakiru 32-year-old was apprehended,” Oyeyemi stated.

He said that the police recovered “one double barrel locally made gun and assorted criminal charms.”

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