Police allegedly kills two in Ondo

A police officer attached to a filling station along Arakale road, Akure ,the Ondo state capital has reportedly shot to death two persons .

Eye witness said the police officer shot one person while trying to scare people away following a motor accident which had killed two persons on okada on the road and later shot another person in the process.

Another eye witness told our correspondent that the police shot one person while trying to scare people away.

Our correspondent reports that the arakale road is now blocked with vehicles and okada riders trying to protest the incident.

Meanwhile, Commercial motorcyclists have protested the killing of their colleague by a policeman at Arakale area of Akure the Ondo State capital, chasing officers out of the station.

The motorcyclists mobilised themselves to A division police station where they attacked policemen on duty.

They broke into the gate and threw stones into the building while policemen and their families fled through the back gate.

Some policemen scaled the fence and ran away while others struggled to take their vehicles away from the barracks.

Bonfires were set in front of the A Division as the Okada riders demanded to see the policeman who shot one of their colleagues dead.

It was gathered that a driver had knocked down and killed one okada rider and a cocoa merchant at Arakale area of Akure.

A source told Newsline NG that the accident victims on getting to the hospital had died

"Only the man that was shot that gasped, hoping he will still wake, but all effort proved abortive"

A policeman reportedly attached to a filling station in the area was said to have fired shots in the air to scare the protesters away but one of the shot hit and killed an okada rider.

The policeman reportedly fled to the A Division for refuge and was pursued by the okada riders.

One of the protesters said they want the killer policeman released to them.

Gunshots fired by the police angered the okada riders who hauled stones and other objects into the building.

An eyewitness said many policemen scaled the fence and ran away.

Ondo Police spokesman, DSP Fumilayo Odunlami, said she was yet to be briefed about the incident.