It was a terrible moment in Oye-Ekiti on Thursday as armed robbers stormed a branch of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) in the town and left two persons dead.
Sources said the victims were a young girl of about five years old and a man suspected to be the police officer attached to the bank.
The young girl was said to have been shot in the head while coming back from school.
The robbers, in the daylight operation, carted away money from the bank’s vault and stole from the customers.
Sources said the armed robbers, who shot endlessly into the air on arrival and during the robbery, gained entrance into the banking hall after blowing up the door with dynamite.
The robbery started around 3 p.m.