The suspects’ bodies were displayed at Ogbere Police Station with three pump action rifles, two locally-made pistols and a machete, allegedly recovered from them.
Also, N166,000, handsets, laptop, wristwatches and other valuables, said to have been snatched from the victims were recovered from the suspects.
One of the victims, Donatus Adie, told Metro that the incident happened at about 1.08 a.m at J4 junction, saying that the operation lasted for more than two hours.
He explained that the robbers who were armed to the teeth blocked the ill-fated vehicle with an 18-seater passenger bus, adding that one of the robbers drove the vehicle into a thick bush.
Adie said for over two hours the operation lasted, the hoodlums terrorised the passengers.
The traveller said even after the robbers had vanished into the bush, the fear-stricken victims remained in the bush until the police arrived.
Kunle Apanishile, who said the suspects snatched his N30,000 and wristwatch, added that the hoodlums beat him up.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ogbere, CSP Agunbiade Adeyinka, led his men to the scene following information about the robbery incident.
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent Police, said the Police went after the hoodlums and killed two while other members of the gang fled with gunshot wound.
He therefore urged hospitals in the area to report any patient with gunshot wound to report such to the Police.
Oyeyemi said a sum of N166,000 recovered from the armed robbers would be shared among the victims, while their valuables would also be returned to them.
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