- Two passengers of Young Shall Grow Motors were reportedly killed by armed robbers during a robbery operation along the Benin-Ore road on Friday, July 7.
It was gathered that a driver with Ezenwanta Transport Service and his conductor were also shot and injured by the robbers.
Luxurious bus driver barricaded the road at the Okada axis of Benin-Ore road over the killings. Road users were stranded for several hours.
A driver with complete sport newspaper, sulaman Tajudeen, said the driver block the road in protest against the killing during a robbery operation on the road.
According to him, the armed robbers blocked the road around 1pm and were there till 3am, disposing passengers their belongings.
However, the spokesman of the Edo state police command, Moses Nkombe, said one person were killed during the robbery operation.
"A bus conductor was killed when the robbers shot a bus which refused to stop for them." he said