A policeman guarding one of the branches of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc in Ekiti and a minor who was returning from school were on Thursday shot and killed when armed robbers stormed the Oye-Ekiti branch of the bank.
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There was pandemonium in Oye-Ekiti on Thursday as a result of the operation which took place in broad daylight. The incident took place around 3 p.m. according to eye witness.
The robbers reportedly carted away yet to be ascertained amount of money from the bank’s vault as well as stole from the customers they met in the banking hall.
Premium Times reporter who visited the robbery scene, said he saw the corpse of a girl, said to be five-year-old, on the floor.
The pupil was shot in the head while coming back from school.
“A policeman was killed with a small girl sitting beside the bank. There are some shops behind the bank, so the policeman was sitting in front of the shop with one small five-year-old girl.
“I think they targeted the policeman but the small girl, unfortunately, had shared part of the bullet. Two of them died,” an official of UBA said.
The spokesperson of the Ekiti State Police Command, Caleb Ikechukwu, said the armed robbers gained entrance to the bank using a phylum explosive.
Ikechukwu narrated: “There was a robbery attack on the commercial institution in Oye-Ekiti. We are still investigating on that(number of casualties) as soon as I have confirmation I will issue a statement in regards to the incident.
“The armed robbers were dressed in a green camouflage uniform. They gained entrance into the bank with the use of phylum explosive.”