The Ekiti State Police Command on Monday said a suspected armed robber, Sunday Oluwasola, who was rescued from a mob attack, has died in the hospital.
The command in a statement by its spokesperson, ASP Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti, said Oluwasola allegedly belonged to an armed robbery gang that attacked a students hostel opposite Ekiti State University in Iworoko-Ekiti.
According to Abutu, Oluwasola was captured by the students and beaten to stupor while his other gang members fled the scene of the robbery.
He said the command’s Rapid Response Squad had earlier received a distress call that an armed robbery was going in a hostel apartment opposite the Ekiti State University campus in Iworoko-Ekiti.
Abutu said though Oluwasola was rescued by the operatives on getting to the scene and rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment, he later developed complications and died in the process.
He said Oluwasola upon interrogation before his death had confessed to the crime.
According to him, Oluwasola mentioned some of his gang members that fled the scene of the robbery operation to include: Tochukwu, Michael and Tomiwa, whose surnames are unknown.
Abutu, however said efforts are on to arrest his other gang members that fled with valuables such as laptops, phones and cash.
He said the body of Oluwasola had been deposited in the morgue of an unnamed hospital for post mortem.
Abutu listed items recovered from the suspects to include: two locally made barrel guns, two cutlasses, two pliers and two human images carved with wood.
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