Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Delta State Command have allegedly shot two brothers.
It was gathered that trouble started on Thursday July 13th 2023, when the operatives were chasing drug peddlers and purportedly shot sporadically into the air in Okpanam, a suburb of Asaba, Oshimili north local government area of the State.
It was learnt that the children were in their mother’s shop, a cake baker and owner of Hillsi Cakes N More Academy, after closing from school when the incident occured.
It was gathered that a stray bullet touched the younger of them on the eye while the older one was hit on his abdomen but they have been rushed to the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Asaba, for surgery.
Reliable information on Friday July 14th 2023, at the hospital, revealed that the one stray bullet touched on the abdomen, died on same date the incidence occured.
At press time, efforts to reach the spokesman of the Command, proved abortive.
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