Angry Mob Stone Suspected Three Armed Robbers To Death In Benue
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three armed robbery suspects were stoned to death by a mob at Ushongo town for carrying out an operation around Tse Dansa in Ushongu Local Government Area of Benue State on Sunday.
The suspects incurred the wrath of the community when they trailed a vehicle coming from Cross River and attacked the passengers in the early hours of the day close to the house of the District Head of Mbayegh, Nathaniel Hoyo.
Eyewitnesses said Hoyo immediately informed the police through telephone and also mobilized youths to chase the attackers who ran into the hills in the area and hid in one of the caves.
A mobile police team and operatives of Operation Zenda later joined the youths to comb the hills and cave where they arrested the suspects.
There was spontaneous outrage from members of the community against the suspects as their attack came just a few days after bodies of kidnap and robbery victims were discovered and exhumed from the area.
The angry mob continuously stoned the suspects and dragged them along the road before the police took their bodies and displayed at the Ushongo police station.
The names of the suspects were given as Terkaa Jabi, alias Gajere, Terkimbir Iorbunde Ahungwaor, and Paul Mbailuior Damsa.
The Caretaker Chairman of the local government, Bemsen Agugu, who visited the police station, assured that the council will partner with the different communities in the area to fight and reduce crime.
The Mbayegh District Head also advised youths in the area to engage in productive activities and shun crime which he noted could lead them to untimely death.
The Benue State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene, confirmed the development. Anene said the suspected armed robbers, who were part of the syndicate involved in serial murder and robbery in the area shot one of the travellers who was receiving treatment at the hospital.
She said the corpses of the suspected robbers had been deposited at the Teaching Hospital in Makurdi.
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