The explosion occurred as the state police commissioner conducted an on-the-spot assessment a day after the bank was robbed.
Two persons were on Thursday injured by an explosion that occurred during a visit by the Oyo State commissioner of police, Joe Enwonwu, to a commercial bank branch that was robbed the day before in Okeho town.The police said four of the robbers were apprehended and burnt to death by an angry mob, while two others were arrested by the police.
He said when Mr Enwonwu visited the bank on Thursday, a mammoth crowd of angry residents demanded that the arrested armed robbers be handed over to them for jungle justice, but the police chief refused. “He discovered that four people were burnt, the security post of the bank shattered with dynamite while a police sergeant was shot dead by the bandits.
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