Lagos businesswoman, Mrs. Uduak Oluyede, has been shot and killed by gunmen who robbed her bakery on Adetola Street, Aguda, in the Surulere area of Lagos State, Nigeria.
According to Punch Metro, the 37-year-old Uduak was alone at her shop when the robbers invaded the premises and shot her in the stomach while trying to dispossess her of her valuables.
After perpetrating the crime, the robbers, numbering about three, were said to have escaped on a motorcycle.
The injured baker, while bleeding profusely, reportedly rushed to a co-tenant’s shop, identified as Ify, who volunteered her vehicle to rush her to a nearby hospital.
Punch Metro gathered from Ify that Uduak died at the Randle General Hospital in Surulere, Lagos.
She said: “We were at the shop when we suddenly heard a gunshot. But when I stepped outside, I could not trace where the sound of the gunshot came from. Suddenly, we saw Uduak bleeding as she ran into my shop and said we should rush her to a hospital.
“I was totally shocked and could not drive; so, I pleaded with my mechanic who was around to drive her to a nearby hospital where they stopped the bleeding. The doctor said the case was beyond them and referred us to the Randle General Hospital.
“When we got there, they demanded a police report and her husband to sign. So, I quickly rushed to the Aguda Police Station on Soloki Street and pleaded with the policemen to follow me to the hospital so they could commence treatment on her.
“A policeman was writing the report in the car as we were rushing to the hospital. When we got there, she had been placed on drip and oxygen, but she died.”