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Three persons were today feared dead and two policemen injured in a bloody clash involving policemen and some people at the popular Oje Market in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State.
The crisis started today when the police attempted to disperse hoodlums that were allegedly extorting money from motorists.
Information revealed that the hoodlums were attempting to destroy the vehicles of the motorists that refused to pay them.
However, in the process of shooting to disperse the hoodlums, a police stray bullet hit a motorcyclist popularly called, ‘Olokada’ and he died immediately.
This made the people of the area to organize a protest.
They blocked the road and made bonfire on the road grounding vehicular movement.
The police sent reinforcement to the area, but this was to lead to more tragedy.
When the police officers failed to persuade the enraged people to end their protests, and shot in the air, stray bullets again hit two civilians.
The condition of the latter was not known by press time.
The mob in reaction, also injured two policemen who are currently receiving treatments at undisclosed hospital.
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