Mob kills three robbery suspects at Mabushi

Three persons, who allegedly tried to strip a lady of her valuables inside an Abuja cab, were on Wednesday morning lynched by a mob at Mabushi Bridge in Abuja.

A witness, Bello Haruna, said the trapped woman inside the cab raised an alarm, which made some motorists to pursue the car.

A witness, said motorists who heard the alarm, overtook the cab and blocked it.

He said the road was blocked and the vehicle with registration number XA 595 ABJ and side number 4391 was stopped and three persons dragged out and beaten to stupor.

“The mob that formed at the scene of the incident beat the suspects with clubs as well as stones and at the end; two of the suspects were thrown over the bridge, while the police rescued one, who died on his way to the hospital,” he said.

Reacting, FCT Police spokesman, Superintendent Jimoh Moshood, said the police received a distress call from people regarding the incidence and mobilized to the scene.

“Unfortunately, before the police could intervene, they had already been killed with stones and clubs, while another brutally injured person died on the way to the hospital. We appeal for calm and people should not take laws into their hands,” the spokesman said.

He warned that killing of suspects no matter what the offence committed is a crime, adding that anybody caught doing that will be arrested.

The spokesman advised members of the public to handover suspects to the police for thorough investigation, instead of taking the law into their hands, adding that the incident is under investigation as the police are bent on getting to the root of the matter.