Police APC Crushes 2 Kids In Osun

Tragedy struck in llesa, Osun State on
Sunday when a driver of a police
Armoured Personnel Carrier crushed
two kids of the same parents to death.
Our correspondent gathered that the kids were playing in
front of their parents ‘ residence when the driver of the
APC rammed into an electric pole before crushing the
kids to death.
Residents alleged that the APC’s driver was drunk.
The older kid, Sade was said to be five years old while
the other one, Aanu was three years old.
Sympathiser s, most ly okada riders, reportedly chased the
police vehicle but the driver escaped together with the
vehicle.
Irked by this, the angry mob were said to have attacked
the ‘A’ Division Police Station at Ayeso where they
vandalised all the police operational vehicles parked in
the station including other valuable property and police
quarters inside the station.
Policemen on duty were reported to have engaged the
mob by firing tear gas canisters and shot into the air
repeatedly to scare them.
It was learnt that the mob did not leave the station until
they accomplished their mission.
The distraught father of the kid was said to have gone to
the police station to collect the corpses but he was
denied.
But the Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade
Odoro, when contacted, said that the policeman who
drove the APC lost control and hit an electric pole which
eventually electrocuted the kids.