BREAKING: Hunters Arrest Fleeing Bank Robbers, Clash With Police

A group of hunters in Okeho, Oyo State, have arrested the remaining armed robbers who escaped from the scene of attack on a branch of First Bank in in the town on Wednesday night.

Residents told THE WHISTLER on Thursday that the hunters and angry residents wanted to lynch the robbers but the police, who later came to the scene, insisted on taking the suspect away to the station.

The disagreement is said to be generating tension in the town now.

Recall that four of the robbers were killed and burnt by residents who prevented them from escaping after the robbery on Wednesday.

Some of the residents who spoke to our correspondent said the hunters pursued the robbers and caught one of them and recovered the corpse of the injured one.

The eyewitnesses said residents were afraid that the robbers might still regroup and attack them if the remaining one was released to the police.

“We are not sure that the remaining one won’t be released by the police if we allow them to take him away.

“If this happens, we are all going to be in danger because he can mobilised and come back to attack us,” he said.