BREAKING: Mob Beats Lagos Policeman To Stupor For Pushing Man Crushed By BRT

A mob has battered a yet-to-be-named policeman to unconsciousness after a man identified simply as Yusuf was slammed by a BRT bus as a result of being reportedly pushed by officers in Lagos State’s Ketu district.

According to reports, the officer and his colleagues were attempting to evict Yusuf from his vehicle when he was forced into the BRT lane.

In the process, one of the BRT buses plying the road into Lagos collided with Yusuf, who collapsed as a result of the incident.

According to an eyewitness who requested anonymity, the police officers were responsible for Yusuf’s trauma, and he suffered varied degrees of harm as a result of the incident.

“The policemen caused this; they were the ones that were trying to dispossess the man of his vehicle and while trying to push the man out of the vehicle, they pushed him on the BRT lane and an incoming bus ran into the man,” the eyewitness said.

Another eyewitness, whose name could not be ascertained as he hastily spoke with our correspondent when the scene got rowdy, said the policemen, after realizing that Yusuf had been crushed by the BRT, attempted to flee the scene but an angry mob apprehended one of them.

He said, “It was people that beat the policeman till he fainted. He has not died because I still observed that he was breathing. People were annoyed about what they did to that man.

“The man sustained serious injuries, look at him lying unconscious on the floor and his blood on the road.”

It was also gathered that people rushed to the rescue of Yusuf who was seen lying motionless on the BRT lane.

While some people were seen pouring water on him to make him regain consciousness, policemen attached to the Ketu Divisional Police Station attempted to rescue their colleague who also lay motionless on the ground.

The uniform of the brutalized policeman had been torn due to the impact of the attack on him by the angry mob.

People were also seen lamenting over the incident and blaming the policeman and his colleagues for causing the accident.

However, while assessing the injuries Yusuf sustained from the impact of the accident, our correspondent saw a deep cut on his right arm as people rushed him into a vehicle for onward treatment in a hospital.

Policemen attached to the Ketu Division were seen storming the scene to restore normalcy. The yet-to-be-identified policeman was also rushed to the hospital for treatment.

Contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said he would get back to our correspondent but had yet to do so as of the time this report was filed.