The police in Jigawa on Monday said two suspected armed robbers fleeing arrest from a robbery scene were lynched by villagers in Sule-Tankarkar Local Government Area, following desperate moves to evade arrest.
The police spokesperson in Jigawa, Audu Jinjiri, said the robbers, numbering about nine, earlier robbed and killed a man, Kamisu Idris, at Andau village in Babura Local Government Area, and took to their heels after sighting the police.
The superior gunfire of the police forced the hoodlums to abandon the three robbed motorcycles, one AK47 rifle with nine rounds of ammunition, as they took to their heels, Mr Jinjiri added. Subsequently, the villagers ganged up and lynched two of the suspects. However, the police rescued another suspect by name Abdullahi Usman, 35, from Niger Republic, who sustained severe injury, the police added.
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