No fewer than five persons reportedly lost their lives on Wednesday in Ilesha, Osun when unidentified gunmen attacked premises of the State House Of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Timothy Owoeye’s groove Hill Hotel and other residences of the All Progressive Congress (APC) members in the state.
This is as the Osun State chapter of the PDP hinted earlier that, two of its members were shot dead on Tuesday by the opposition members after it campaign rally in Ilesha.
The speaker as gathered, narrowly escaped the assassination attempt as he was whisked away by his security operatives when the fierce looking criminals whose numbers were given as about 15, struck
Eyewitness account who preferred anonymity, said the miscreants shot at occupants of the hotel indiscriminately as if they were in a conquered territory before being engaged in gun duel by the security operatives attached to the state speaker.
The gun battle was said to have lasted hours before the attackers retreated and ran away, threw occupants in the hotel and those around it into a panicking situation as some managed to escape through scaling of fence, running out from the hotel through other entrances and so on.
Informed sources stressed that, those living around the scene of the incident also vacated their residences and ran for safety.
Besides, residences and businesses of some indigenes in Ijesha-land were said to have been attacked by the hoodlums who reportedly beat hell out of them and inflicted various degrees of body injuries on them.