Jail Break: Robbery Suspects Cut Iron Bars to Escape From Police Cell (Photos)

 

Reports have it that two robbery suspects have escaped from the Pen Cinema Police Division cell after cutting the iron bars.

 

The suspects numbering 3 were arrested after an operation at Iju road, in the Agege area of Lagos state. They were members of a 10-man robbery gang which recently attacked a hotel and some residences of Sands Avenue, off Iju Road.

 

Three of them were arrested and handed over to the police by members of the Oodua People's Congress, OPC. It was gathered that the policemen on duty at the time of escape of the culprits have been arrested while the suspects are still at large.

 

It should be noted that the suspected robbers alongside others ravaged the Agege area on Sunday, August 9, at about 2am during which they carted away with huge sums of money.

 

The hotel incurred much losses as their female workers including a 13-year old girl were badly raped. The security man at the hotel was also injured after the robbers had robbed the hotel lodgers of huge sums of money.

 

 

PUNCH Metro gathered that men of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, who were the local vigilance group in the area, however, apprehended three of the robbers and took them to the Pen Cinema Police Division.

According to the correspondent, the three robbery suspects, identified as Dare Drain, Akeem AK, and Lekan Student, were locked up in the cell by the policemen on duty.

It was gathered that on Wednesday evening, two of the suspects had, however, cut through the burglar bars in the cell, and escaped from custody.

Victims of the robbery and the OPC men, who were aggrieved by the development, were said to have been invited by a policeman in the station, who pacified them that the robbers would be re-arrested.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Patricia Amadin, however, said in a text message that there was no truth in the incident.