Police foils armed robbery attack,arrest one in Oyo

Police operatives in Oyo State on Monday foiled an armed robbery attack on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway, and arrested a suspect.

The spokesman for the state police command, Ayanlade Olayinka, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Ibadan.

He said a joint patrol team, comprising of Police operatives and local vigilantes, intercepted the armed robbers at Egbeda Village near Ogbomoso.

“The suspected armed robbers had blocked the highway and stopped a tanker loaded with diesel, driven by one Surajudeen Sulaiman, and forcefully dispossessed him and his motor boys of their belongings,

“A gun duel later ensued between the fleeing hoodlums and the Police patrol team, which enabled one of the suspects, aged 32, to be apprehended,

“Other members of the gang escaped into the bush, sustaining bullet wounds.

“Following the incident, the Police and vigilante team embarked on intensive bush combing and a manhunt for the fleeing suspects,” Olayinka stated.

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