An unidentified police officer was severely beaten by a mob after a man was run over by a BRT bus in the Ketu area of Lagos, Nigeria.
The man, identified as Yusuf, was reportedly pushed into the path of the bus by the police Officer.
An Eyewitnesses to the incident, while speaking to reporter, stated that the police officer and his colleagues were attempting to dispossess Yusuf of his vehicle when he got pushed into the BRT lane, Punch report.
“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 newsmen when the scene got rowdy, said the policemen, after realising 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 observed as people rushed to the rescue of Yusuf who was seen lying motionless on the BRT lane.
While some policemen attached to the Ketu Divisional Police Station attempted to rescue their colleague who also lay motionless on the ground.
The uniform of the brutalised policeman had been torn due to the impact of the attack on him by the angry mob.