One Police Inspector and two security guards were reportedly shot as suspected armed robbers on Friday engaged men of the Nigeria Police Force, in a gun battle while robbing a hotel in the Sagamu area of Ogun State.
This was made known in a statement by the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Omotola Odutola.
It was gathered that the injured policeman and the guards were rushed to the Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital in Sagamu, where they are reportedly responding to treatment.
Odutola, said in the statement that the Sagamu Area Command had received a distress call at about 1:00 am “that armed hoodlums were operating at Remo Majestic Hotel in Sagamu”.
Based on the report, Odutola said a combined team of policemen were mobilised to the scene.
“Immediately the hoodlums sighted the policemen, they opened sporadic firing while the policemen engaged the hoodlums,” she explained.
The PPRO said, “two of the hoodlums were fatally wounded while others escaped into a nearby bush with bullet wounds”.
Odutola further said that, “two locally made single-barrelled 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 were among items recovered at the scene of crime”.
She added that the suspected armed robbers had earlier mingled with lodgers before launching the attacks.
The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu Abiodun, ordered an immediate manhunt for the two fleeing suspects, the statement added.
