Nemesis:Robbers drown inside canal while escaping with N13,000......SEE PHOTO

Firstclass newsline learnt that two robbery suspects have drowned
inside a canal in the Ojota area of Lagos while they were escaping
with a mobile phone and N13,000, snatched from their victim.
Firstclass newsline learnt that the deceased were part of a five-man
gang, which had unleashed terror on the Olusosun, Ojota, area, before
attacking the male victim, whose name had yet to be given, at about
8pm around the Olusosun dump.
Firstclass newsline learnt that a local vigilance group, however,
apprehended two members of the gang, and handed them over to the
Alausa Police Division, while three of the robbers escaped.
Firstclass newsline learnt that on Saturday, two corpses, suspected to
be the fleeing robbers, were, however, found trapped inside the
Olusosun canal around the dump.
When our correspondent visited the area, a construction worker, who
gave his name as Saliu Ahmed, said officers of the Neighbourhood Watch
gave the robbers a chase before two of them slipped into the canal.
He said, "It was a about 8pm on Thursday. I knew when officers of the
Neighbourhood Watch at the Olusosun dump, gave the robbers a chase.
They later got two of them and took them to the police at Alausa.
"The robbers had stolen one Nokia mobile phone and the sum of N13,000
from their victim around the dump. Three of the gang members escaped
that evening. It was then surprising that on Saturday, at about 12pm,
the alarm was raised that two bodies were trapped in the canal.
"When the officers came to examine them, it was discovered that the
victims were two of the fleeing robbers who slipped and died in the
canal. It was the police who later came to remove the corpses."
Firstclass newsline learnt that the bodies had been deposited at a
public morgue for autopsy.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, had
yet to reply to a text message sent to his phone on the incident.
Firstclass newsline , however, learnt that the case had been
transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.
Firstclassnewsline.net