Gunmen kill bus driver in Edo

The father of the deceased, Pa Daniel Irabor, 78 , said he begged the assailants when they stormed his residence not to kill his son that they but did not listen to him.

He said the gunmen met his son washing clothes behind the house and opened fire on him, adding that he ran inside with the bullet wound and hid under his mother’s bed but the gunmen chased, dragged him out and shot him the second time.

“When I heard the first gunshot I ran out, I saw blood stain in my passage, then a young man with a gun ran into my passage, I begged the gunman to just kill me and leave my son, he pushed me away from the door, dragged Samuel who was bleeding and shot him again,” he said.

He explained that the deceased, about two months ago, had a quarrel with one boy at Ring Road but that he could not say who was behind the killing.

The spokesman of the Edo State Police Command, DSP Moses Nkombe, who confirmed the killing, said it was a cult related killing.

He, however, called for useful information that would assist in apprehending the perpetrators.