Gunmen have shot dead a man at a hotel in Sagamu, Ogun state.
Police are still investigating if the attack was cult related.
The gunmen, numbering five invaded the Winner hotel at Igbosoro at Igodo axis of the town on Tuesday afternoon.
On entering the hotel, the gunmen locked all the staff in a room and proceeded to the room of their victim, identified as Gideon Ebukwe who lodged at the hotel.
Their victim in a bid to escape from the gunmen broke through the ceiling of his room in the hotel,
but the gunmen pursued him and shot him dead outside the hotel.
Spokesperson of the state police command, Omolola Odutola said the incident was reported to the police at around 3:30 pm on Tuesday.
According to her, a police team deployed to the scene of the incident took the body of the man to a hospital’s morgue in Ogijo.
She said investigations still underway to determine if the incident was a cultist attack.
Omolola said the case would be transferred to state police command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigations.

Ogun state government has criminalized prevention of members of the public by petrol filling stations and eateries, as well all public places, from using their toilets.
It says members of public have the rights to use their toilets which must always be kept clean for public use.
The state environment commissioner, Ola Oresanya asked members of the public denied the usage of the toilets, to report to 090-1048-0056.
Oresanya, speaking on a Rockcity FM programme: ‘daybreak show’ on Thursday, said the provision of public toilets was part of the conditions for approving their operational licenses across the state.
The commissioner also said a bill has been sent to the state house of assembly to penalize open defecation and urination in the state.
According to him, the bill stipulates fines ranging from N5,000 to N50,000 for offenders.
He adds that there is a provision for three month prison term or a one month community service for anyone caught in the act of defecating or urinating publicly.
Oresanya said that already, the state was building modern public toilets, six of which are now operational between Mowe and Berger axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The target, according to him was to build 40, across the state, out of which 20 would be ready by end of 2025.

Customs officers have been injured in a gunfight with smugglers at Obada Idi Emi near Imeko Afon, in Ogun state border communities with Benin republic.
The leader of the customs patrol team and another officer were injured in the arm and legs.
Another person suspected to be an onlooker was shot dead.
The smugglers had attacked officers of a custom patrol which intercepted smuggled parboiled rice on Monday.
The officers had offloaded the contraband from a Mazda car whose driver had escaped into their patrol van when the armed smugglers opened fire on them.
The custom officers were forced to escape from the scene.
The patrol vehicle was damaged while the seized contraband was taken away.