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| Armed men guarding the building with someof the killed victims today |
Tragedy struck Ogun state Police Command as one its officer, Corporal Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi, ran amok, shot dead his wife, Corporal Oluwatosin Faremi, killed four other persons and injuring three gravely before taking his own life.
Information gathered was that the killer cop, identified as Corporal Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi, ran amok early this morning while still in the office and had to hurriedly leave for his house and carry out the killings.
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After killing his wife who was also a policewoman attached to the Obantoko Police Station and the seven other victims, the rampaging police corporal shot himself dead immediately.
Three other persons who sustained gunshot injuries during the incident were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba for treatment.
Narrating the incident under anonymity,an eye witness said,” Ogunbiyi had arrived at the No 67, Ifelodun Street, Akingbala area,Obantoko, residence of the family of five who had allegedly been harbouring his wife and his two children at about 7:02am and immediately opened fire killing his wife and the commercial motorcycle rider simply identified as Kunle”,he narrated.
Residents disclosed to P.M.NEWS that the police corporal had in the past issued several warnings to the owner of the property on Ifelodun Street, to desist from harbouring his wife and children whenever they had any misunderstanding and whenever she moved out of his house.
Police patrol vehicles at the General Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta to deposit the corpses at the mortuary today
But the landlady was said to have turned deaf ears to the police man’s warnings.
Ogunbiyi, it was g gathered had been laying ambush for his victims in a nearby bush, was said to have emerged from nowhere with his rifle as the commercial motorcycle rider was about to pick his wife who was already dressed in her police uniform and their two children who were said to have also been dressed up in their school uniforms in front of the house.
After shooting dead his first victims in front of the house but sparing his two children, the rampaging policeman was said to have proceeded straight into the six-room uncompleted building where he immediately opened fire and killed the landlady, who had yet to wake up from the mat she was sleeping on when he shot her.
Ogunbiyi also shot dead Basira,the landlady’s daughter and her two-year-old daughter, Jesutofunmi as well as the landlady’s two sons, Taofeek, a Senior Secondary School 2 student of Nawar-u-Deen Grammar School, Obantoko and his elder brother, Sikiru.
Among the early callers to the scene of the incident this morning was the State Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye.
This is what you have when you don't check the mental state of people you admit into the police force
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