Nigeria, Aug. 21 -- The police in Ogun State say they shot dead two suspected bandits in the early hours of Saturday at Onigaari area, Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police spokesperson, disclosed this in a statement released on Saturday.

Mr Oyeyemi said the police encountered the suspects while searching for kidnappers terrorising the area and engaged them in a gun duel, in which two suspected bandits were killed.

"In furtherance to bush combing operation in search of kidnappers terrorizing different parts of Ogun state, men of Ogun state police command in the early hours of Saturday 21st of August 2021, engaged suspected kidnappers in gun duel at Bere forest in Onigaari area along Lagos-Ibadan Express way."

Mr Oyeyem...