Pandemonium erupted on 24 Road, in the Igbogbo, Ikorodu area of Lagos State, after a suspected cult gang shot and killed four persons.
Sources reported that the six-man gang arrived in the community on Friday around 8pm on two motorcycles before carrying out the dastardly act, leading to the death of a 63-year-old native doctor, identified as Rasheed Yusuf, aka Low Banger, who was said to be walking along the road.
The gangs were said to have also shot at Rasheed’s wife, Falilat, and a two-year-old girl, Kehinde but they both survived the attack.
The cultists we gathered further rwaylaid and shot dead two other men, identified as Yusuf Cisco and Lukman Apetu, who were riding on a motorcycle.
One other resident was also reportedly killed during the shooting spree while many residents sustained various degrees of injury.
Sources say policemen from the Ikorodu division and members of a vigilante group in the area arrived at the area to remove the corpses after the attackers had left.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the deaths, adding that the police had arrested three suspects.
