Robbers Attack Zenith Bank, Kills Police Office And Other Victims - Photos

In the early hours of yesterday, gunmen stormed the Bank Road in Agbara area, a suburb of Lagos.
According to eye witness around there "around 9am, as everyone was about going to his/her business, they just started shooting sporadically," an eye witness said.

"They came in through the Agbara Bus-Stop, through the Nestlé Road and down to the Bank Road inside the Industrial Estate where we have about ten banks," he added.

"They shot and killed all the mobile policemen on that Road, and the ones on guard at the Zenith Bank where they eventually broke into," another eyewitness recounted.

"The used something like IED on the bank's strong-room to get access to the money," he added.

"They also attempted to break into GTB, but at a point, they withdrew," the eyewitness explained.

The police APC stationed at the entrance of the Estate was overpowered as the policemen who had managed to fire just a few bullets, retreated and took to their heels. Men at the Nestlé security post were also hit.

The police had come to pick the bodies of their men, while the bodies of the civilians, mostly customers who were inside the bank for transaction when the incident happened, are yet to be attended to at the time of writing this report.

"More than five people inside the bank were hit by bullets," a cab driver, who took a customer to the bank said.

A pregnant woman whose identity we couldn't get at the time of posting this, was shot in the in the leg.

"Some people rushed her to the hospital, but we don't really know which hospital," a woman who had come to sympathize with the victims at the scene said.

"The nearest hospital, however, is Rophe Hospital or Rock of Ages, but you know these are private hospitals and they may not want to admit bullet-wound patients, so the other place they could possibly take her to is the Badagry General Hospital. Although, we saw some victims being rushed to these private hospitals."

The robbery operation lasted thirty minutes, and the robbers escaped through Alase, a community in Agbara. It was gathered that the gunmen carted away with boxes of money from the Zenith Bank.