Woman, Boyfriend Die While Running From Police

TRACKING____Two teenage lovers have drowned in the Ureje Dam, Ekiti state while they were allegedly trying to escape police arrest.

According to a report by The Sun, the incident happened at a joint where some elements in the community usually visit to smoke Indian Hemp and other drugs.

Chairperson, Land Lord Association, Bamgboye community, Deaconess Phebian Fatuase, said “the youths have turned the dam side into a den where they carry out all criminal activities.”

She said that the community had made several attempts to chase them out but that the youths had remained recalcitrant until the police became involved.

Deaconess Fatuase explained that until a few days ago, some of them were still arrested while smoking Indian hemp around the dam.

The chairperson noted that the man and the woman who reportedly drowned were said to have jumped into the dam on sighting security agents but had drowned when they could not beat the tide of the dam.

But the Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, Mr Sunday Abutu, confirmed that two persons perished in the dam while swimming but said the police was never involved.