Akure—Police detectives have arrested two suspected ritualists with a human skull on the Ibillo-Isua Expressway in Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State.
Also, four armed robbers met their death in an auto crash after attacking a team of policemen, while on patrol on the Idanre Road in Akure metropolis.
Police Commissioner in the state, Isaac Eke said the four armed robbers were the killers of two policemen at a road block in Akure last month.
It was gathered that after the robbery, information reached the policemen attached to the ‘B’ Division of the state Police Command, who gave them a hot chase.
Their get-away vehicle, a white Hilux Vehicle marked 11/ 260 FG said to have been snatched at Ifon area of the state, crashed into a church fence and the four of them died on the spot.
Items recovered from them include two AK-47 rifles belonging to Okuta Elerinla Police Division said to have been carted away from the two deceased Policemen they shot dead in the state last month.
Also recovered were 126 live ammunition, three magazines, N160,120, two number plates (Edo State), 21 handsets, a substance suspected to be dynamite and charms.
Speaking on the suspected ritualists, the police chief said policemen, while on stop-and-search duty on Ibilo-Isua Expressway, intercepted the suspects, who wrapped the human skull in a black polythene bag.
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