Student dies in robbery shooting
The entire community of the Adekunle Ajasin
University, Akungba Akoko is in grief over the killing of a final year
student of Industrial Mathematics in the school, Adeyinka Adebayo, by
suspected armed robbers.
Mr. Adeyinka, 24, was said to have boarded a
commercial bus at Owo junction to Akungba Akoko yesterday, a
30-kilometer drive to his campus, when the driver ran into a gang of
armed men in military uniform who were carrying out a robbery.
Sensing that the driver would not stop, the gunmen
shot at the bus and in the process hit Mr Adeyinka, who sustained
severe injuries.
He was later rushed to the General Hospital, Ikare
Akoko, where he was treated for the wounds but he nevertheless died
from the injuries.
The death of Mr Adeyinka has since provoked
scathing criticisms from the students of the institution, who frowned
at the spate of armed robberies along the same road without any serious
effort by police authorities to put the situation under control.
The Ondo State police commissioner, Balla Mogaji
Nassarawa, who confirmed the incident, however said the police are
working on the case.
The Police boss also confirmed the arrest of two robbers in Ore when they were trying to set out for a robbery operation.
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