A man was yesterday hit at the popular Oje market in Ibadan by the police stray bullets, killing him on the spot.
It was learnt that the police fired sporadically in a bid to quell the fight between a group of miscreants and some commercial motorists over attempts by the former to extort the latter.
The Divisional Police Officer in Agugu Division, Mr. Timothy Adedeji, led a team of policemen to the scene.
An eye witness, who did not want his name mentioned, said: “We and two other policeman prevailed on the aggrieved parties to stop the fight.
“After quelling the crisis, the mob started hailing the DPO. The police officer, being an indigene of Ibadan, tried to disperse the mob through persuasion. But when the miscreants attempted to attack him, he fired some shots into the air to scare them.
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