25-year-old trailer driver shot dead in Edo

A 25-year-old trailer driver was on Monday found dead at Iyaro, along New Lagos road in Benin.

The late driver, identified as Anthony, was said to have been found dead with bullet wounds in the chest and head around 3am on Monday.

A concerned driver, Zakari Musa, said that he was informed through a phone call that his colleague had been killed and taken to the mortuary by the police.

He said that the late Tony was conveying goods from Ofusu in Edo State to Ughelli in Delta State before the incident occurred.

Zakari said, “It was last night around 3am that someone called that one of our drivers was killed and the police took the corpse to a mortuary. Continue..

“He was killed around Iyaro close Kada Chicken Republic.

“His name is Anthony but his nickname is ‘Oshiomhole. He carried some goods from Ofusu to Ughelli but parked at Iyaro.

“We don’t know whether he was killed by armed robbers. So we want the police to investigate the matter.”

However, the Edo State Police Command said that the man was killed by armed robbers.

The spokesperson of the command, DSP Noble Uwoh, told our correspondent on telephone that police found that the late driver was shot in the head, after a call was put through to the command by a concerned Nigerian.

Uwoh said, “The man was shot in the head by armed robbers. The people around called the police before we got there and discovered that the man was shot in the head.

“So, police had to deposit the corpse in the mortuary.”

He said that investigation was still ongoing in ensuring that the said robbers faced the wrath of the law.