Daredevil armed robbers yesterday’s evening attacked some commercial banks in Offa, Kwara state.
The Armed robbers killed scores of people, including police men, complainants, bank customers and market people in the process.
Men of the underworld also reportedly carted away unspecified amount of money in different currencies.
The bandits, who operated for about an hour, entered the town around 4:45pm and operated till about 5:40pm as they first reportedly blocked roads from both Ilorin and Osogbo ends.
They were said to escape through Igosun, a neighbouring community with their loot .
The armed bandits first approached the Offa divisional police station on entering the ancient town, killing policemen on duty among other people at the station, before raiding the commercial banks and killing people by shooting them on the head.
Among the police men killed by the armed robbers that reportedly operated in commando style, was a man identified as Pelemo, who was expected to retire in few months and a pregnant police woman.
An eyewitness said that corpses of six policemen were taken away in his presence, while efforts were being made to bring out others inside the police station.
It was also gathered that the bandits, who numbered about 15, came in different vehicles as they stationed themselves at strategic areas of the town, as it was reported that they also snatched commercial motorcycles to operate and escape.
The general hospital, Offa, where the injured victims were taken, was already over populated by those who secured varying degrees of injury and gun wounds.
The spokesman of the state police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed the bank raid, said that victims included policemen and other individuals.
He said that details of the bank robbery would be made after a full investigation on the incident.
