Armed robbers kill pregnant woman, policeman in Oshodi

YAKUBU ALKALI: LAGOS STATE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

There was pandemonium, this evening in Oshodi area of Lagos State, when a gang of armed robbers opened fire in an attempt to make their escape.

In the process, a pregnant woman, one policeman and another unidentified man were killed while several other people got injured.

An eyewitness, who called our correspondent on phone around 6.29pm, said the armed robbers had probably gone to rob a locality in the Bolade area of Oshodi.

According to him, the robbers opened fire at the Bolade Junction and the policeman stationed there ran away to safety.

He narrated that it was the sound of gunshots, which rented the atmosphere that drew the attention of policemen from the nearby police station.

‘We all ran to safety when the robbers started firing the shots. The policeman at the Bolade junction had to run away. The robbers’ gunshot attracted the policemen from the police station close to that place. They came and one of them got killed in the ensuing exchange of fire.

‘Later the RRS, KAI and others came to the scene. I saw them carrying the dead policeman. The other two people they carried were a pregnant woman and another young man,’ he said.

The gunshots sent most commuters running helter-skelter for safety as motorists and traders abandoned their vehicles and wares.

The robbers, according to the eyewitness, made their escape with none of them arrested or shot by the police.

All attempt to get the state police public relations officers, Samuel Jinadu, to confirm the development proved abortive as all calls made to his GSM line were not picked.