Tragedy occurred in Lagos on Thursday, October, 27 when a team of immigration officers from the Zone shot and killed one person in Mile Two area of Lagos during a raid that turned violent.
The officers were said to be engaged in an assignment involving illegal immigrants in that part of the country.
Sources said when some of the affected illegal immigrants sighted the officers, they allegedly connived with hoodlums who engaged the immigration team in a battle that eventually led go the killing of one of them.
At the time of filing this report, the officer who shot the deadly bullet had been taken into the immigration detention cell pending full investigation into the incident.
A senior immigration officer who spoke to Armadanews.com on condition of anonymity lamented that the authorities are not helping their cases whenever it comes to raiding illegal aliens, particularly China and India nationals most of who take the laws into their hands due to their alleged relationship with the powers that be in the Service.