Robbers ambush bullion van in Ondo, cart away millions

Akure—SOME dare-devil armed robbers, yesterday, ambushed and disarmed policemen escorting a bullion van, then carted away an unspecified amount of money.

The body of the bullion van and the escort vehicles were riddled with bullets, while their tyres were deflated by bullets.

the incident occurred at about 4p.m. at Elemoso village in Ondo East council of Ondo State.

Beside the driver of the bullion van, who was seriously injured, the policemen escorting the van are yet to resurface from the bush they ran into when the robbers struck.

It was gathered that the bullion van was conveying an unspecified sum of money from the branches of one of the old generation banks in Ondo town to their headquarters in Akure when the hoodlums struck.

Some of the villagers said the robbers trailed the bullion van from Ondo town until it got to the village, where there were speed breaks, before attacking the van and the escort police vehicle.

The strike

Sources in the village said the driver of a red car pretended to overtake the bullion van, while it slowed down because of a speed break, only to block it and fire volleys of gunshots into the air.

The policemen, it was gathered, fled into the bush, following the robbers’ heavy fire power, leaving the two vehicles.

The robbers then broke into the bullion van.

The van is marked Lagos FST 945 AL, while the escort is registered PF 344 SPY.

Sources said the robbers, after carting large sum of money into their car, escaped through a village to Ile-Oluji.