The anti-robbery team attached to Mowe Division of the Ogun State police command, on Saturday, engaged a gang of armed robbers in a battle at Redemption Youth Camp, on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, killing one, while others escaped with bullet wounds.
The incident occurred at about 9.30p.m. after the robbers snatched a Toyota Sienna vehicle, with registration number LSD 339 CH, at gun point near the camp, which incidentally, was close to the pin-down point of the police team.
The robbers had reportedly shot and injured the owner of the car (names withheld), who resides at Aguda area of Lagos State, before snatching the vehicle.
The sporadic gunshots of the armed robbers were said to have attracted the policemen on duty near the scene, prompting them to give the hoodlums a chase.
Unable to withstand the response of the policemen, the robbers reportedly abandoned the vehicle and fled into the nearby bush on the expressway, with bullet wounds.
On a search in the bush area around the scene of the encounter, the police were said to have discovered the corpse of one of the robbers.
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