The Police has arrested the leader and three members of the robbery team that robbed banks in Lagos and Ogun States recently.
A correspondent of The Eagle Online in Sapele, Delta State is reporting that the armed robbers were arrested after a gun battle that left one policeman dead.
Available information has it that the leader of the gang, Kelly Fotor, popularly known as Kelvin, was arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team in Sapele at about 3pm on Saturday.
The team was said to have tracked Kelly, the leader of the Festac, Lekki, Ikorodu (all in Lagos State) and Agbarra (Ogun State) bank robberies, to Sapele.
The last of such robbery operation last week in Agbara Estate, Agbara, Ogun State left a policeman dead.
Kelly and his group however did not give up easily as one policeman was shot dead during the gun battle.
Three of the four arrested armed robbers sustained bullet wounds while other members were said to have escaped to Delta and Ondo States.
It was learnt that efforts are on to arrest the fleeing members of the gang.
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