{"id":6139,"date":"2013-07-07T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/three-feared-dead-in-police-civilian-clash\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:25:09","slug":"three-feared-dead-in-police-civilian-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/three-feared-dead-in-police-civilian-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Three feared dead in police-civilian clash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GBENRO ADESINA\/IBADAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three persons were today feared dead and two policemen injured in a bloody clash involving policemen and some people at the popular Oje Market in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State.<\/p>\n

The crisis started today when the police attempted to disperse hoodlums that were allegedly extorting money from motorists.<\/p>\n

Information revealed that the hoodlums were attempting to destroy the vehicles of the motorists that refused to pay them.<\/p>\n

However, in the process of shooting to disperse the hoodlums, a police stray bullet hit a motorcyclist popularly called, \u2018Olokada\u2019 and he died immediately.<\/p>\n

This made the people of the area to organize a protest.<\/p>\n

They blocked the road and made bonfire on the road grounding vehicular movement.<\/p>\n

The police sent reinforcement to the area, but this was to lead to more tragedy.<\/p>\n

When the police officers failed to persuade the enraged people to end their protests, and shot in the air, stray bullets again hit two civilians.<\/p>\n

The condition of the latter was not known by press time.<\/p>\n

The mob in reaction, also injured two policemen who are currently receiving treatments at undisclosed hospital.<\/p>\n

The Oyo State police spoke person, DSP Olabisi Ilobanafor confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n

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