The bank larceny incident which occurred on Thursday evening in Modakeke, Osun State, claimed no fewer than 10 lives.
Armed larcenists were verbalized to have invaded two banks located in the town and carted away an astronomically immense sum of mazuma.
Our correspondent accumulated that 10 people, including two bank workers were shot dead during the operation.
Sources told our correspondent that the eight purloiners arrived in the town in a conveyance and moved straight to one of the banks and commenced utilizing explosive to pull down its wall while some of them shot directly at the security door to rupture it.
A resident of the town told our correspondent that the people were killed during the operation which lasted for proximately one hour.
The resident expounded that some bank workers were killed while passengers in a bus passing by were hit by the bullets fired by the larcenists and some of them died.
The resident verbalized albeit policemen came to the scene, they could not match the purloiners who he verbalized were more preponderant armed.
He integrated that the policemen, however, shot at the tyres of the conveyance brought by the armed men and demobilised them.
He verbalized, “The purloiners came in the rain and opened fire on the bank. I closed my shop and ran away from the place. My neighbours additionally closed hurriedly because of the larceny.
“The whole town was thrown into perplexity. The purloiners threw explosive into the bank and that gave them access into the facility. They came after the closing hour and prospered in carting away their loot.”
Another resident, who gave his designation as Ola, verbalized that the town was thrown into discombobulation as the hoodlums rained bullets on the bank.
He, however, verbalized the larcenists did not prosper in looting the bank, but killed some people.
Ola verbally expressed, “You ken that larcenists cannot glom from Modakeke, it is not possible. Some youths rose up and blocked the road and the purloiners ran away. I cannot verbalize if any of them was apprehended.”
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, verbalized that six persons were killed during the operation.
“Six persons were killed and we are investigating the matter,” she verbally expressed.
But the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in the state, Mr. Ayo Olowe, verbalized 10 persons were shot dead during the larceny.
