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ONDO: Irate youths beat DPO to a pulp after bus crushed 2 to death

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ONDO: Irate youths beat DPO to a pulp after bus crushed 2 to death

The Divisional Police Officer of Ondo State Mr Wole Ogodo was reportedly beaten to a pulp after a commercial bus crushed two victims to death around Ilara Mokin, in the Ifedore Local Government Area of the state.

According to reports, the DPO was trying to calm frayed nerves of an irate mob after the incident which witnessed the death of the two victims who were on a motorbike on the Ilesa-Akure Expressway when the 18-passenger commercial bus crushed them to death.

According to an eyewitness, the police officer was attacked and beaten up while trying to calm angry protesters as the commercial bus was set ablaze.

The eyewitness said; “The two men who were indigenes of the town were crushed to death by the bus that was travelling to Lagos. This infuriated the people of the town because they believed that the driver of the bus was reckless.

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“They immediately organised a protest and burnt down the bus and blocked the highway, they also attacked policemen as they tried to stop them. The DPO was beaten up.”

Reacting to and also confirming the incident, Femi Joseph, the state Police Public Relations Officer said the irate youths took the law into their hands.

“There was a fatal accident which claimed two lives, but the people of the community were unruly as they burnt down the vehicle and as the DPO was trying to prevent them from burning the vehicle, they overpowered him and seriously assaulted him.

“However, we have begun our investigation and we will still arrest those that set the bus ablaze and those that beat the DPO because they have committed another offence.”

 

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