Gunmen kills one police, injures three others in Lagos

BY: News Peddlers 

Benjamin Hundeyin, SP Lagos.

Assailants shot and killed a police officer in Lagos State's Ikorodu area on Friday, police confirmed on Monday.

The assailants fled with the slain officer's rifle.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin, a police spokesman in Lagos State, told journalists that three other police officers were seriously injured in the attack.

Officers from the Imota Police Division in the Ikorodu area were on patrol when they were attacked at Emuren Junction on Itokin Road in the area.

According to local sources, the assailants ambushed the police patrol team, opened fire on it, killed one on the spot, and fled with his rifle.

"Police raided cultist hideouts in Emuren, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun on Saturday," a resident said.

In the past, many innocent people had been shot by agents of land grabbers in Ikorodu and its environs.

(NAN)