Two newly recruited Constables of the Durbar Police station in Oyo and a member of the Discipline Intelligent Group of Nigeria (DIGON) have died while chasing weed smokers.

The security operatives identified as Oparemi Goke and Ogunyemi Mujeeb, drowned around 7:30 pm on Sunday, July 12, 2020, at Awerintu river, Oke Eletu, while chasing the hoodlums who ran towards a bridge washed away by the flood.

The policemen had followed one of the hoodlums into the water he jumped into but got swallowed by mud.

Their corpses were recovered in the late hours of the same day.

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