A yet-to-be-identified police officer has been attacked and beaten by a mob after allegedly causing an avoidable accident in the Ketu Area of Lagos State
It was gathered that the policeman and his colleagues were attempting to dispossess the man identified as Yusuf of his vehicle when he got pushed into the BRT lane.
In the process, one of the BRT buses plying the lane inward Lagos rammed into Yusuf who collapsed due to the impact of the crash.
An eyewitness who spoke to Punch said the policemen were responsible for Yusuf’s ordeal, adding that he sustained varying degrees of injury as a result of the incident.
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“The policemen caused this; they were the ones that were trying to dispossess the man of his vehicle and while trying to push the man out of the vehicle, they pushed him on the BRT lane and an incoming bus ran into the man,” the eyewitness said.
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Another eyewitness, said the policemen, after realizing that Yusuf had been crushed by the BRT, attempted to flee the scene but an angry mob apprehended one of them.
“It was people that beat the policeman till he fainted. He has not died because I still observed that he was breathing. People were annoyed about what they did to that man,” He said.
“The man sustained serious injuries, look at him lying unconscious on the floor and his blood on the road.”
The Ketu Divisional Police Station attempted to rescue their colleague, who lay motionless on the ground.
The uniform of the brutalized policeman had been torn due to the impact of the attack on him by the angry mob.
Both the victim and the police officer were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
