Police stray bullets kills two in Ilorin

Police Officers on patrol from the Nigerian Police command in Ilorin, Kwara State on Monday 23rd, December shot two persons at about 11:40am. They victim were killed by stray bullets as they walked by the Ilorin Central Mosque.

Eye witness reports that a Police patrol van was pursuing the driver of a car. Because the driver did not stop, the policemen shot into the air, with a view to forcing him to stop before the incident occurred.

Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Agboola Oshodi-Glover, confirmed the incident,adding that the corpses of the victims have been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital mortuary and that the yet-to-be identified policemen will be brought to book.