An undergraduate of the University of Calabar, Uyo, was lynched on Wednesday by some angry mobs for allegedly stealing a lady’s mobile phone and handbag.
The undergraduate who was operating with another young man, who is still at large was alleged to have boarded a taxi at Marian Road, Calabar South and on getting to Goldie by Atu Street junction, they asked the taxi driver to stop as they claimed to be alighting. However, while stepping down from the taxi, one of them grabbed a lady’s handbag and the other snatched her phone.
“When the lady raised the alarm, some people went after the boys and one managed to escape, but unfortunately for one of them, he was intercepted after he hid himself in a gutter, in front of my house” Dr Emmanuel Effiong Ene, a lecturer who witnessed the incident said.
Dr Ene further stated that when one of the thieves escaped the mob came after the one who hid himself and descended on him with stones and cudgels.
”I heard someone scratch a machete on the ground and
soon after the boy began to scream as he was being cut with the machete” he said.
The machete cuts hacked off the suspect’s hands which left him dead, as he was subsequently dragged from the gutter in front of no 1 Gibson Street and dumped at the junction between Goldie and Gibson, with blood splashing all the way.
“Some people bought tyres from a nearby motor mechanic workshop to set him ablaze, but only his head and eyes caught fire, ”he added.
It was learnt that a large crowd gathered early in the morning to behold the gory sight while residents of Gibson Street and the adjoining streets stayed indoors or hurried off to work to avoid police arrest.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police who gave his name as Edem that led the team of policemen to take the decapitated body away at about 9am yesterday, said the body would be taken to the General Hospital Calabar for autopsy.
“It is against the law to just bury anybody who is killed in mob action without post mortem examination because in the event of any arrest and
subsequent legal action, the cause of death has to be presented as evidence,” he said.
subsequent legal action, the cause of death has to be presented as evidence,” he said.
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