A bullion van, transporting money to a bank at Idi-Ape in Ibadan North East Local Government area of Oyo state, was attacked by armed robbers where three police men and others were killed.
According to reports, it was said that the armed robbers were said to have dressed like a police men in police uniform, followed the van to Idi-Ape and tried to stop the bullion van at the area which they successfully did.. police men were killed, passerby hit by the bullet
Eyewitness, stated that the robbers had fired several gun shots at the van in an attempt to stop the van and cart away with the money. We can recall that there was a similar robbery incident that had happened in 2008 where many were killed.
All effort to reach out to the State Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso, proved abortive as he had not picked his call or replied to his text messages.
Meanwhile, The state police command has launched a search for the runaway robbers with the assurance that they would be found and arrested.
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