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Rescued armed robber died of complications from mob attack

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The Police Command in Ekiti on Monday said a suspected armed robber, Sunday Oluwasola, who was rescued from a mob attack had died of complications 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 (EKSU) in Iworoko-Ekiti.

According to him, Oluwasola was captured by the students and beaten to stupor while his other gang members fled the scene of the robbery.

He said that the command’s Rapid Response Squad (RRS) had earlier received a distress call that an armed robbery was going in a hostel apartment opposite the Ekiti State University (EKSU) campus in Iworoko-Ekiti.

Abutu said that, though Oluwasola was rescued by the operatives on getting to the scene and rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment, later developed complications and died in the process.

He said that 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 that efforts are on to arrest his other gang members that fled with valuables such as laptops, phones, and cash.

He said that the body of Oluwasola had been deposited in a morgue of an unnamed hospital, according to the police for security reasons for post mortem.

Abutu listed items recovered from the suspects to include: two locally made barrel guns, two cutlasses, two players and two human images calved with wood. (NAN)

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