Four killed in shootout between Customs officials and suspected smugglers

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The exchange of gunshots by the customs officials and suspected smugglers threw the rustic town of Iseyin into panic.

on Thursday in Iseyin, Oyo State, engaged suspected smugglers in a shootout during which four persons were reportedly killed and property destroyed.

Muftau Abilawon, the former caretaker chairman of Iseyin Local Government Council, confirmed the bloody incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview on Thursday night. “He advised that I brief the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security about the matter, which I did immediately and he has promised to intervene.

“The chiefs also begged them not to set the Customs base in Iseyin ablaze, which they yielded to but it was too late for the Toyota Hilux van as it was on fire already before the appeal,’’ he said without disclosing the identities of the four victims.

 

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