Five people, including two brothers, have been
shot dead in the Ajegunle area of Lagos.
They were shot after hoodlums hijacked a
campaign rally organised by a Senatorial
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
which went through Oduduwa and Layinka streets
and moved down to Cemetery Road in Amukoko.
Punch reports that the rally turned violent on
Layinka Street when some politicians, who
accompanied the unnamed Senatorial candidate,
began to share gifts.
As the supporters and residents scrambled for the
items, some thugs, who felt they were being
sidelined, attacked the supporters.
Two other factions of the thugs also reportedly
clashed, shooting at one another and vandalising
property. Two young men of the same parents,
identified simply as Abeeb and Idris, were among
the five persons killed in the fracas.
Abeeb, more commonly called Abere, was shot
twice in the belly and died instantly, while Idris,
his younger brother, was initially rushed to a
private hospital in the area before he died.The
two young men lived with their parents on
Alayabiagba Street, Boundary, Ajegunle.
A shop owner, Ojedokun, who witnessed the
incident said the thugs looted her goods and shot
continually, during which stray bullets injured
several passersby.
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