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Tobi Adedeji a journalist working with The Nation Newspaper has been shot by police operatives deployed to disperse protesters in Osogbo, Osun state.
Meanwhile a student whose name has not been given was also hit by a straying bullet from the police.
Some youths had assembled under Olaiya bridge in Osogbo to protest the alleged extrajudicial killing of one of them, identified as Abiola.
The protesters had blocked the road and prevented vehicular movement.
The police personnel, it was gathered were shooting sporadically to disperse the protesters.
About 30 minutes after the protest, some police operatives stormed the scene and shot into the motley crowd and journalists covering the protest.
Toba Adedeji, The journalist, who was shot in the thigh, was rushed to the Osun State University Teaching Hospital for medical treatment as at when filing this report