A four-man armed robbery gang on Monday trailed
two bank customers, including a police inspector, to the premises of a new
generation bank at the Idimu area of Lagos, robbed and killed them in cold
blood.
According THISDAY, unknown to the inspector and the civilian, who
wanted to withdraw money from the bank’s ATM and banking hall respectively, the
robbers were lying in wait for them to finish their transactions.
While the inspector was shot in the head at
close range as he made to exit the ATM stand, the other civilian , whose
identity is yet unknown, was also shot as he exited the banking hall with the
money he withdrew.
The robbers would have escaped but for the
quick alert of the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), who while
responding to the distress call, engaged the gang in a shootout at Okunola
street in Idimu.
At the end of the operation, the operatives
gunned down two of the armed robbery suspects, arrested one while the fourth
gang member escaped.
The arrested suspect has since been taken to
the Idimu Police Station, from where he was transferred to the Lagos State
Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja, for further investigations.
The police were also able to recover their
two operational motorbikes, as well as the two guns they used for the
operation.
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