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Bank robbers kill 5 in Akoko

Five persons, including two security guards, were killed while several others were injured on Tuesday in a robbery attack that occurred at a branch of a new generation bank in Ogbagi-Akoko in Akoko Northwest Local Government area of Ondo State.

The five persons, sources said, were killed during the robbery operation while those injured were those fleeing from the scene of the crime so as not to be hit by stray bullets. Some also got injured while running for safety when they heard of the robbery incident.

Sources in the town said the heavily armed men stormed the town around noon and headed straight to Uko quarters where the bank was located.

According to him, the armed men used grenades and dynamite to blow up the security doors leading to the bank before gaining access to the bank’s premises.

Also, they blew the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) machine located in the bank’s premises with dynamite before carting away an unspecified amount of money.

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The source said it was in the process of gaining entrance to the bank that the two security guards were killed. Other causalities, he said were customers who came to transact business in the bank.

He said armed robbers numbering about 15 stormed the town with motorcycles and shot sporadically into the air in order to scare away residents of the town.

He said the armed robbers who came with high calibre rifles carted away unspecified amount of money from the bank and started shooting sporadically into the air in order to escape from the town to the neighbouring town in Ekiti State.

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