Two armed robbers were crushed to
death yesterday on the Third Mainland Bridge while robbing motorists.
A motorist said the gang members,
numbering over eight, struck around 1:30pm.
The motorist said: “The
robbery gang members drove against traffic. They were in four motorbikes.
We noticed they were heading towards Lagos Island direction. But suddenly,
along Adekunle axis, they stopped and barricaded the road with their
motorbikes. They started robbing motorists.”
Many commuters were dispossessed of
their valuables in the operation which lasted over 30 minutes. The operation
abruptly came to an end after the owner of a wine coloured Toyota Carena car,
speeding, rammed into two of the robbers, crushing them instantly to death.
An eye witness said: “The driver who
killed the driver was a uniformed personnel. They two robbers chased him
because he refused to stop after sighting them. As they pursued him, he
suddenly reversed and crushed two of them to death. By this time, a team of
Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC, Nigeria Police Force and Lagos State Transport
Management Authority LASTMA, stormed to the scene. The bloody bodies of the
robbers were removed. By then their other members had fled the scene.”
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