There was pandemonium at the University of Nsukka on Tuesday, June 28 after a policeman killed a motorcyclist at the beach junction of Nsukka while trying to shoot into the air.

Premium Times reportsSKN that the policeman, whose identity was not released to the media, is attached to the Nsukka Building Material Taskforce set up by the Nsukka Local Government Transitional Committee Chairman, Rose Onah.

According to a witness, the killing of the cyclist was occurred when the taskforce numbering eight with four policemen were trying to compel a cement dealer to pay a fine for refusing to move to the building material permanent site.

“The pleading by the cement dealer attracted sympathy from people in the area who joined in begging the taskforce members to leave the man alone but they refused,” the witness said.

On noticing the growing crowd, the policemen began to shoot into the air to scare people away.

But one of the policemen, while trying to raise his riffle made a mistake and and shot a motorcyclist who was just coming out from a nearby restaurant after eating.

This sparked outrage among the people of the area who pounced on the policeman that shot the man and beat him to a state of coma.

The irate mob was however scared off by a team of policemen from Nsukka police station who arrived the scene, rescued the wounded policeman and evacuated the dead motorcyclist.

Read more:http://www.naijatopstory.com/2016/06/nsukka-boils-over-police-killing.html

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