Police officers arrested over ‘accidental’ killing of two passersby in Lagos

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Some police officers have been arrested over an “accidental shooting” that left two passersby dead in the Alagbado area of Lagos state on Friday.

Abimbola Adebisi, the Lagos police spokesperson, said Moshood Jimoh, the police commissioner, has ordered an investigation into the incident.

The detained policemen were reportedly chasing suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as “Yahoo boys,” around the area when they fired the gunshots.

Confirming the incident in a post on X, Adebisi said Jimoh has ordered “adequate deployment of personnel to forestall any breakdown of law and order” in the area.

“The officers involved in the unfortunate shooting incident that occurred today in Alagbado have been arrested and taken into custody,” the police spokesperson said.

Adebisi added that normalcy has been restored to the area, assuring that justice will be served and the outcome of the investigation will be made public.

An X user who witnessed the incident said the police officers are attached to the AIT division police station.

He said the officers, who were on stop-and-search duty, “ran away immediately” after shooting the passersby, “leaving the unconscious victims without aid until they gave up the ghost as they couldn’t get help”.

The incident follows a series of cult clashes recorded in parts of the state, particularly in Iyana-Ipaja, Aboru, Badore, Olokonla, Onipanu, and Satellite Town, where at least four people have been reportedly killed, and several others injured. Thecable