Two more armed robbery suspects were given the
jungle treatment as they were burnt to death » by an
angry mob in Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government
Area of Anambra State, barely two weeks after two
suspects were also set ablaze after they robbed an
Hausa trader at the New Tyres Market.
The incident that led to the recent jungle justice »
came when the robbers armed with pistols, trailed a
woman on a commercial motorcycle with money in a
'Ghana-must-go' bag that she was taking to the bank.
The suspects allegedly snatched the money from the
woman believed to be the cashier of a local bank
branch in the town.
After snatching the money, the shot sporadically into
the air and in a bid to zoom off, the had an accident
with their own motorcycle and the woman and other
passer-by who saw the incident raised alarm, alerting a
passing police patrol team who went after the
hoodlums.
Eyewitnesses report that on sighting the police, the
suspects fired shots at the them and the police replied
but the bullets did not pierce their bodies but they
were overpowered by the crowd which dispatched the
jungle treatment on them, burning them to ashes.