Brazen Attack: Assailants Shoot Lagos Policeman Dead, Stealing His Rifle

• Some yet-to-be-identified assailants attacked some policemen in Lagos last Friday.

• The attack left a policeman dead and his colleagues injured.

• There are claims that the attackers had links to land grabbers in the area.

Eko Hot Blog reports that assailants shot a policeman to death on Friday in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

The police spokesman in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the baffling development on Monday.

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In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Hundeyin said the assailants escaped with the rifle of the slain policeman.

He also disclosed that three other police operatives were seriously injured in the attack.

Operatives of the Imota Police Division in the Ikorodu area were on patrol duty when they came under the assailants’ attack at Emuren Junction, on Itokin Road in the area.

Local sources said the assailants, suspected errand boys of land grabbers, ambushed the police patrol team, opened fire on it, killed one on the spot and escaped with his rifle.

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According to NAN, many innocent people had fallen victim to gun attacks by agents of land grabbers in Ikorodu and its environs in the past.

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