Two suspected armed robbers were on Monday morning killed and another injured during a gun battle with police in Lagos.
It was gathered that the suspects, including one Toheed Fashola alias Epo, met their waterloo around 5am while allegedly robbing early road users around Alakija on the Badagry Expressway.
The suspects were said to have hijacked a commercial bus and robbed its passengers of their phones, other valuables when policemen from Satellite Division on crime patrol were tipped off about their operation.
According to a source, the cops pursued the suspects from the scene of the crime and as they approached a dead end, they opened fire on the officers to evade arrest.
“Policemen retaliated and in the process two of the robbers died while the third one, Quadri Suleiman sustained leg injury. They are notorious in Sattelite, Tolu and environs. These boys operate up to Ajegunle and they terrorise people.
“The injured one claimed it was his first time to have joined them,” he said.
Suleiman, it was gathered, has been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) alongside the firearm recovered from the gang.”