A motorcycle thief met his untimely death in the hands of an angry mob after he reportedly was caught stealing a motorcycle.
The mob set the thief on fire (Photo credit: Sadiq Isah Abubakar)
An
unidentified man alleged to have stolen a motorcycle was set ablaze by
an irate mob in Dabi village, Kwali area council last Sunday. The sad
incident happened around 4:00p.m. in the community on the Abuja-Lokoja
expressway.
It
was gathered the mob pursued the suspected thief from Gwagwalada to
Dabi after he allegedly snatched a motorcycle. The suspect abandoned the
machine and fled but that the mob caught him. He was beaten to pulp
before being burnt alive.
“Some
of the people used dangerous objects to stab him all over the body,
while others hurled big stones at him, until he became unconscious. They
now brought a tyre and set him ablaze,” said an eyewitness.
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