Osun police launch manhunt after stray bullet kills teenager

Osun State Police Command has launched a manhunt for suspected hoodlums pursuing the sidesplitting of a 14-year-old lad identified arsenic Ezekiel Olapade and the wounded of different idiosyncratic during a shooting incidental adjacent the Irepodun Local Government Secretariat, Ilobu.

The constabulary besides revealed that the deceased, Olapade, was reportedly struck by a stray slug erstwhile equipped men opened occurrence adjacent to the assembly secretariat on Sunday afternoon.

The Command’s spokesperson, SP Abiodun Ojelabi, said officers had commenced investigations and were intensifying efforts to apprehend the premier suspect, identified arsenic Saheed, popularly known arsenic “Tanfeani”, alongside others believed to person participated successful the attack.

“The incidental happened this day adjacent the entranceway of the Irepodun Local Government Secretariat successful Ilobu. One Saheed, besides known arsenic Tanfeani, came with different thugs and started shooting. In the process, a slug deed Ezekiel Olapade, aged 14, and helium died connected the spot.”

According to the police, different unfortunate whose individuality had yet to beryllium established besides sustained gunshot wounds and was receiving attraction successful hospital.

Eyewitnesses said the gunmen had assembled adjacent the section authorities secretariat and were allegedly attempting to summation entree to the premises erstwhile they noticed a antheral wearing a headdress bearing the colours of a governmental enactment astatine a ...