Nigeria: Police Kill Two Robbery Suspects

9 March 2010

TWO notorious armed robbers who specialized in robbing unsuspecting bank customers using motorbikes popularly known as Okada Tuesday in Apapa, Lagos, met their waterloo after a gun battle with a team of anti-robbery squad.

Police sources said the gunmen, numbering three, had ambushed an unnamed business man who had gone to make withdrawal in one of the new generation banks on Point Road, Apapa.

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