News Trader Fatally Shot As Policemen Escape Mob Attack In Lagos
SP Hundeyin, who took his Twitter handle on Tuesday, said that in a bid to tactically retreat from the armed mob attack, one of the officers fired his weapon, resulting in fatal injury to one of the attackers.
He neither gave the name of the policeman who fired his weapon during the operation nor that of the injured trader. The Police Public Relations Officer wrote: “Policemen of Okokomaiko Division today went into Alaba Rago Market to effect arrest of a suspect but came under heavy attack from a large number of traders.
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