Wednesday, 8 May 2013
GUN MEN KILL POLICE CORPORAL ,Injure three in midnight robbery attack.
Suspected armed robbers  in the early hours  of Wednesday attacked a police team killing one policeman and wounding three others.
The policemen are attached to the Alade Police Station in Somolu Lagos State .
Residents said they heard fierce gun shots about midnight at the Bajulaiye area of the state.
According to a police source, the suspected armed robbers allegedly drove in a  white Murano Utility Jeep  attacked the  police team  at Church Bus Stop Bajulaiye.
An unidentified commercial bus driver was said to be driving the policemen in the  Lagos State yellow bus when they were attacked .
The police source gave the  names of the wounded officers as " Sergeant  Ogoigbe Egugoje ,corporal Iyang and Monday Efoma while  Corporal Gabriel Bissong was shot dead". The wounded policemen were  taken to the General Hospital at  Oguntolu Somolu before they were transferred to the Intensive Care Unit Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) at  Idi-Araba.
 Transport workers  have complained of  armed robbery attacks at
the Fola-Agoro axis Bajuliaye stating that   a notorious car snatching gang operates in the area.  They also decried policemen "hijacking" their buses and using them to patrol the streets.
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