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Armed robbers in Lagos shot dead a fan of the Brazillian football team at the weekend, minutes before....
Armed robbers in Lagos shot dead a fan of the Brazillian football team at the weekend, minutes before the Samba boys crashed out of the World Cup.
The slain football fan, identified as Remi, a.k.a Bella, was rushing home to watch the match in his black Honda car, marked BF 117 MUS along Ogo-Oluwa Street, in the Akowonjo area of Lagos, when he ran into the bandits, who had just raided a cyber café.
"There was a crowd watching football at the cyber café because of power outage in the area at about 8p.m. when the robbers stormed the place and snatched many laptops and telephone handsets," an eyewitness told Daily Sun.
According to eyewitnesses accounts, as the robbers were about to escape, they saw the approaching Honda car and ordered it to stop, but Remi, who was a stone's throw from his house, was said to have stepped on the gas and he didn't go too far before bullets were pumped into his car.
Even after he was hit by the bullets, he bravely drove on at top speed until he ran into some stationary vehicles on the nearby Alhaji Idowu Street. He couldn't move further.
Sympathisers, who tried to save his life took him to three hospitals that rejected him before he was taken to the General Hospital, Ikeja, where he died, as he had lost so much blood.
All the hospitals rejected the victim, whose brother is a police officer attached to the Ikotun Division in Lagos, because of a standing police order that people with gunshot wounds must not be treated without a police permit.
Remi, who was living with eight dependants on Iwajowa Street, was said to have called his people on phone before the start of the France-Brazil match, telling them that he was coming to put on the generating set, so they could watch the match with uninterrupted power supply.
Those who killed him were said to have escaped in a jeep that was later snatched in the area.
Police investigators from Area "G" Command Headquarters, Ogba, yesterday took spent shells from the victim's car in a bid to identify the type of gun used. One of them said it could be Mark 4 rifle.