Six persons including three mobile policemen
were killed and several others seriously injured
during the incident which happened on Lekki-
Ikoyi Link bridge when the rampaging armed
robbers attacked a new generation bank.
Inspector Bethel, indigene of Kwale in Delta
State and father of seven, two other policemen
identified as Sergeant George, an Urhobo also
from Delta State and Corporal Ikechukwu, a
Benin man from Edo State were the policemen
who ran into the robbery operation..
Security sources told Sunday Sun that the three
policemen, contrary to earlier reports, were on
the escort of some expatriates from Victoria
Island to the international airport in Ikeja when
they ran into the bandits who had stormed the
bank for robbery operation.
Sunday Sun reliably gathered that the escort
team decided to follow the Lekki-Ikoyi link
bridge because of the usual heavy traffic on
Ozumba Mbadiwe way with the lead driver
who carried the foreigners on a Coaster bus
leading the way.
The team, it was learnt, ran into two robbers
who were in army camouflage uniform. They
were brandishing a submachine gun, which a
source said uses ten magazines and an AK47
rifle which uses double magazines.
The driver who had no inkling of the danger
lurking around was said to have continued with
the journey without taking any precautions.
“When the entourage got to the second
army check point, which was around the
FCMB bank being robbed at the time, there
were many men in camouflage on standby
as if waiting for someone.
“They allowed the Coaster bus to pass but
immediately opened fire on the right side
of the Hilux Van conveying the police
inspector, a Sergeant and a Corporal. The
Police inspector who was the leader of the
escort and the corporal who sat directly
behind him were hit by bullets and died
instantly.
“Then the first two men in camouflage left
behind began to shoot at the Hilux Van.
The driver who is a civilian stopped the
vehicle, switched off the engine, got down
of the truck, raised his hands and ran for
his dear life. The Sergeant on the other
hand realizing he had been over powered,
got down from the truck without his am
munition with his hands raised in the air
and attempted to run away from the
vehicle. But the robbers opened rapid fire
on him till they were sure he was dead,”
the source revealed.
Sunday Sun further learnt that the Coaster bus
driver who saw another check point ahead of
him was quick to realize that the area was too
hostile and decided to slow down.
“One of the robbers fired at the bus but at
that point, two things happened
simultaneously. The driver of the Coaster
bus stopped while a girl selling smoked fish
who was running for her life was hit by a
bullet in her forehead which came out
through the back and damaged the right
side of her head. She fell down in front of
the Coaster bus and died instantly. Another
civilian was hit by a stray bullet.
Meanwhile, the robbery inside the bank was
said they have been carried out quickly without
any resistance.
“People didn’t know of it because they felt
the men in army camouflage were there to
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