Ikire Killing: Osun police arrest four suspects, recover rifle

The Osun State Police Command has arrested 4 suspects successful transportation with the sidesplitting of 2 passers-by during an onslaught connected constabulary officers astatine Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of Osun State.

The constabulary besides retrieved a cutlass-like object, immoderate spent cartridges and recovered a snatched AK-47 constabulary rifle.

The Commissioner of Police, Osun State Command, CP Ibrahim Umar Zungura, disclosed this connected Thursday portion briefing journalists connected the advancement of the probe into the incident, which occurred connected Monday, 24 August 2026.

According to Zungura, “the incidental occurred astatine the Naira & Kobo country of Ikire aft the Divisional Police Officer and his men responded swiftly to a distress call.”

He said a radical of astir 30 equipped hoodlums attacked the constabulary officers and forcefully snatched an AK-47 firearm from 1 of the policemen.

“One of the hoodlums, popularly known arsenic Ayewo, started shooting sporadically with the snatched AK-47 rifle,” the commissioner said.

Zungura explained that the gunfire deed 3 policemen and 2 passers-by, resulting successful the deaths of the 2 civilians, portion the injured officers were taken to infirmary for aesculapian treatment.

He said the attackers subsequently fled the country with the constabulary rifle, prompting the bid to commence an probe involving quality gathering and...