A police officer was feared dead as some suspected armed robbers, on Tuesday, attacked a first generation bank in Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State.
The robbers arrived at the bank around 3p.m and operated for about 30 minutes.
Some people, also sustained various degrees of injuries while the operation lasted.
A witness said the armed robbers first attacked a police station in the town before they carried out their operations on the bank.
The witness said in the process of attacking the police station, a police officer was killed.
According to the witness, an unspecified amount of money was carted away from the bank.
The armed robbers shot sporadically into the air and engaged the police in a gun duel before they fled the scene and escaped through Ada Road.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson, Osun Police Command, SP Yemisi Opalola, said she could not yet ascertain the number of casualties.
Opalola said that the police tactical team had been deployed to the area.
“We are already there. We have deployed our tactics team to the area. We are on the top of the situation.
“We will give you full details later,” the PPRO said.
Meanwhile, Prof.John Alabi, Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences of the Kogi State University, Ayangba, has been kidnapped by gunmen.
Alabi was kidnapped by a five-man gang on September 27 about 6 p.m. by the gate of his house at Ayangba.
The gunmen attempted to drive him away in his car but the car got stuck in the sand, forcing them to push him into their getaway Mercedez Benz car with which they later took him away.
However, the gunmen, early Tuesday morning called the wife of Alabi and management of the university to demand a N20 million ransom.
Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, DSP William Aya, confirmed the incident.
According to Aya, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Idrisu Dauban, had ordered a special squad to arrest the kidnappers and rescue Alabi alive.
