Tragedy was averted in Yola, Adamawa State after 2 suspected "Shila" boys escaped being burnt to death by an angry mob after snatching a mobile phone.
The boys, Ibrahim Haruna, 24, of Yola South LGA, Anas Usman, 20, of State Lowcost in Yola North LGA, and Mohammed Abdul-Azeez (now at large), escaped by whiskers after perpetrating the alleged crime.
Ibrahim and other gang snatched the phone from a young lady at Jippu Jam roundabout on Monday, 8th August, 2022, by 10:00am.
The boys who were among the 38 suspects paraded by the Commissioner of Police, S. K. Akande, at the police headquarters on Tuesday.
NEWS PLATFORM gathered that the suspects who stormed the scene of the crime in a tricycle, saw their victim seated in front of her shop busy with her phone.
The boys were said to have stopped their tricycle where Abdul-Azeez alighted and pretended to be a passenger and wanted to buy something.
In order to dispossess the lady of her hard earned android phone, Abdul-Azeez, followed from behind and violently snatched her phone and ran to their tricycle and fled the scene immediately.
The lady was said to have raised an alarm which attracted the mob who volunteered and pursued the suspects in tricycles and cars.
The mob who succeded in trailing the suspects after their keke became faulty and stopped functioning, set the keke ablaze and threatened to burn them alive.
It was learnt that Abdul-Azeez, managed and escaped when the tricycle stopped working even before the arrival of the mob who surrounded and apprehended them.
The mob however handed over the suspect to the Police Command, where they are currently being detained and investigated.
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