UNIPORT/ALUU 4: Nigerian Police Release Official Statement

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“The police on getting to the scene met a mob attack on four victims who were supposedly the suspected armed robbers,” the statement signed by Nigeria’s national police chief Mohammed D. Abubakar said.

“Attempts made by the police patrol team to take over the suspects were met with stiff opposition from the mob, who chased the team with stones.”

The four police officers at the scene then called for reinforcements, but they arrived after the victims were “stoned and burnt to death, while the mob immediately took to their heels,” the statement said.

It was not clear why police did not shoot into the air or fire tear gas as is often done to disperse crowds in Nigeria.