By Esther Onyegbula,

Officers of Lagos State Police Command, Trinity Division, have killed an armed robbery suspect, who opened fire at police officers on routine patrol at Coconut Bus Stop along Apapa expressway.

It was learned that two robbers, who were on a motorbike, opened fire on a mobile policeman along Coconut axis of Apapa. While leaving the scene, they also opened fire on a police patrol van, which they thought was after them.

Other operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, who were alerted by the gunshots, gave the robbers a hot chase, shooting dead one of the robbers, while the other escaped.

Vanguard gathered that police recovered live ammunition and a pistol from the dead armed robber, while the mobile policeman, who was shot on the lap, is receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital.

An eyewitness, Alhaji Musa, a truck driver, said: “May be they wanted to collect the officer’s riffle.”