Armed Robbers Snatch Huge Sum From Victim In Kwara

Pandemonium broke out in Ilorin, Kwara State on Friday as a four-man armed robbery gang struck, shooting their way to snatch unspecified several millions of naira from an unsuspecting victim.

The armed gang operated on Muritala Muhammmed Way, directly opposite Newspapers Correspondents’ offices.

The masked armed men drove in an ash-colour Toyota corolla with faded number plate.

A source said that they must have trailed their victim to the spot where they eventually opened fire on him before carting away monies stuffed in four big cartons.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the robbers rained bullets on their lone victim’s grey-colour Toyota Sienna with registration number AA 693 GT from behind to deflate the two left tyres.

After being forced to stop, three masked men appeared while a man was sighted at the wheel ready for getaway.

The three men shot sporadically into the air to scare the people in the business densely populated area.

Stray bullets, however, caught the driver on arm as well as pierced through the front and back windshields and the vehicle’s body.

“They unpacked the cartons full of money from the grey colour Toyota Sienna into their own Toyota Corolla before driving away,” an eyewitness said.

Another eyewitness lamented that while the operation lasted, no policeman was seen “neither during the operation, nor after it.”

As at the time of filing this report, efforts to get the reaction of the Kwara State Police Command were futile.