A police inspector and two security guards have been shot by suspected armed robbers in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, South-West, Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that the victims were shot during a robbery operation in a hotel as police operatives engaged the robbers in a gun duel on Friday.
The injured policeman and the guards were taken to Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) in Sagamu, where they were stabilised.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement saying the Sagamu Area command received a distress call at about 1 a.m., that armed hoodlums were operating at Remo Majestic Hotel in Sagamu.
Odutola said, “At about 0100hrs a distress call was received by Acpol Sagamu that armed hoodlums were operating at Remo Majestic Hotel in Sagamu. Based on the report a combined team of Policemen were mobilized to the scene.”
She said that immediately the hoodlums sighted the policemen, they opened sporadic firing while the policemen engaged the hoodlums.
According to her, two of the hoodlums were fatally wounded while others escaped into a nearby bush with bullet wounds.
The PPRO noted that the items recovered from the robbers included two locally made single barrel guns, four unexpended cartridges, 13 expended cartridges, one big scissors, 10 Android Phones, one Java phone, a white Toyota Venza Car with registration number BWR 123DD Abuja among items.
On his part, the Commissioner of Police, Alamutu Abiodun, ordered an immediate manhunt for the two fleeing suspects who escaped with bullet wounds.
