Police truck crushes two siblings to death

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.
Sympathisers, mostly 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.

Source: Punch