The Osun Command of the Nigerian Police has confirmed that there was a bank robbery in Iree on Thursday, August 5. The command revealed that the Police in
The Osun Command of the Nigerian Police has confirmed that there was a bank robbery in Iree on Thursday, August 5.
The spokesperson of the command, Yemisi Opalola, in a press release disclosed that the armed robbers numbering about twenty at about 3:40pm Thursday, stormed the town in commando-style with about 4 vehicles and simultaneously attacked Iree Divisional Police Headquarters with explosives and gun firing in an attempt to disorganise, incapacitate and destabilise the police who were in a fierce gun battle with them while robbing two commercial banks simultaneously.
She explained that the robbers on sighting the policemen comprising CP’s Surveillance team, IRT, PRU, Anti-Kidnapping, STS, 39 PMF, JTF along with local security outfits who promptly engaged them in a fierce gun duel took to flight. She also revealed that in the course of the robbery, one Police Special Constabulary, Dauda Jelili was shot dead while four civilians were injured and receiving treatment in a hospital.
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