By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE
BENIN—A journalist with Radio Nigeria, Benin, Edo State, Mr. Sashua Edeghagba, was, yesterday, shot dead by suspected armed robbers.

Sources told Vanguard that the journalist met his untimely death in Dawson Street in Benin metropolis where he had gone to repair his car.

According to the source, Edeghagba was said to have completed the repair of his car and was playing around with friends at the mechanic workshop, unknown to him, the hoodlums were operating in a nearby house where a policeman lived.

It was learnt that the pandemonium generated by the robbery attracted residents of the neighbourhood, who came out, but the robbers replied by firing sporadically and in the process, a stray bullet reportedly hit Edeghagba.

The policeman and a woman were said to have also been shot by the robbers.

Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olayinka Balogun, said the robbers were shooting while running away when the bullets hit the journalist and the policeman, who was the target of the robbery,

He said: “The policeman and the journalist were rushed to the hospital, but the journalist died. Apparently no one knew him in the area as a journalist. The robbers didn’t come for him.”

Edeghagba was said to have joined the services of Radio Nigeria last July. His death brought to five the number of journalists who have lost their lives in Edo State in the last two months.