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Driver Chasing Soldiers Kill Pregnant Woman in Kogi

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A pregnant woman identified as Marian Pelemo has been shot dead by trigger happy operatives of the Nigerian Army.

The sad incident happened on Wednesday at the Magongo, Ogori/Magongo local government council of the state.According to sources, a stray bullet fired by the soldiers who were chasing after a commercial vehicle driver, caused the death of Marian.

Marian was reportedly sitting by the front of her family house in Oturo Quarters when the stray bullet shot by the soldiers hit her.

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While speaking to newsmen, Elder brother to the deceased, Mr Idowu Pelemo, narrated that soldiers in a three-vehicle convoy that included a Hilus van with registration number Lokoja 446 KG and another painted in military colour with registration number 014, chased a driver from Ibilo in Edo State to Magongo.

However, the driver jumped out from the vehicle and fled when he got to Magongo. The soldiers shot sporadically in chase of the fleeing driver.It was then Marian who was sitting in front of her house was hit by a stray bullet.

While the security operatives rushed her to the hospital and fled, Marian later died that same night.

“Those men in military uniform normally station their vans along Ageva. From what one of the soldier men told me, he said they wanted to arrest the driver because the driver and some of his colleagues misbehaved to some of their officers in Okene.

“He mentioned that the men in army uniform, following a tip-off ambushed the said driver who was coming from Ibilo in Edo State,” said Mr Pelemo.

Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Nigerian Army in Kogi State, Major Jafaru Muhammed denied the incident ever happened, saying “the Army was not involved in any operations please.”

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