Cop, 3 others killed in bullion van attack

By IFEANYI OKOLIE
 
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.
 
via Vanguard


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Posted: at 18-07-2012 06:02 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Oh no. Why killing harmless people even d kid. May u robbers die in mystery, may u loss ur family members as u do to those helpless people.

Posted: at 18-07-2012 07:31 AM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Sad

Posted: at 18-07-2012 11:23 AM (11 years ago) | Hero