Baby shot by robbers dies after seven months

A one year old baby has died after seven months of battling with complications from a gunshot wound on the head, Taiwo Lawal, who was shot during a series of robberies in Lagos on September 9, 2012.

According to the Punch, Taiwo was shot at his parents’ home in Gbagada during the robberies which occurred simultaneously in various parts of the state, an incident now remembered as Black Sunday.

Following the injury and its publication in THE PUNCH, telecommunications firm, MTN Nigeria, donated N500,000 for the baby’s treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.
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