Ikire violence: Osun police identify two victims killed

The Osun State Police Command has identified the 2 individuals who were killed during a shooting incidental successful Ikire on Monday.

The command, successful a connection by its Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, blamed suspected hoodlums who allegedly attacked a constabulary patrol squad for the deaths.

The bid identified the deceased arsenic 49-year-old Nurení Sobowale of Odeda Area, Abeokuta, and 43-year-old Saheed Akinrole of Adeagbo Compound, Ikire.

According to the police, “the incidental occurred astir 11am on the Ibadan–Ife Expressway erstwhile a patrol squad from Ikire Division responded to a distress telephone implicit the alleged abduction of a antheral identified lone arsenic Sunkanmi.”

The constabulary said the officers, accompanied by the Divisional Police Officer of Ikire Division, came nether onslaught soon aft arriving astatine the location.

The connection said the attackers allegedly opened occurrence connected the constabulary squad and forcibly took 1 AK-47 work firearm from the officers.

The bid said the assailants subsequently utilized the stolen firearm to occurrence indiscriminately, resulting successful the deaths of Sobowale and Akinrole.

“It was aboriginal abandoned and subsequently recovered with aggregate slug holes and a destroyed windscreen,” the connection said.

The constabulary added that 9 spent ammunition shells wer...