No fewer than three gunmen have been killed as armed men numbering four attacked the police team in Osun on Wednesday.
It was gathered the gunmen who emerged from Osunjela road along Oshogbo/Ilesha road attacked the police team who were taking some murder suspects to Ilesa correctional centre.
AMILOADED learnt that the police team had stopped the conveyance vehicle to develop the mechanical fault in it when the gunmen attacked them by firing sporadically in a bid to hijack suspects.
Speaking with AMILOADED, the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Opalola Yemisi said the gunmen abandoned their Motorcycles, guns and many of their weapons when the police team overpowered them.
She said: “…with the superior fire-power of the Police team, the hoodlums abandoned their Motorcycle, three(3) locally made guns; one (1) pump action, two(2) cut to size barrel guns with fourteen(14) live cartridges.
“In the process, three (3) murder suspects sustained several degrees of injuries and later died at Asubiaro hospital in Osogbo and deposited in the same hospital morgue. The hoodlums fled into the bush with bullet wounds.
“Meanwhile, the police in collaboration with the local security outfits and the youths of the community are combing the bush for possible arrest of the fleeing suspects.
“The commissioner of Police, CP Olawale Olokode, psc enjoined members of the public, especially people of Osunjela area to avail the Command with information about any person(s) with suspected bullet wound.
In another development, the police spokesman said: “…at the wee hour of today 26/08/2021 while combing the bush, for possible arrest of the fleeing suspects, recovered the dead body of one of the attackers in the bush with bullets wounds on his body,
“While searching his body, two live cartridges and a paper with incantation written in Yoruba Language with the names of the perpetrators were found in his pocket. His corpse has been evacuated and deposited in the morgue.”
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