An angry mob has apprehended a yet-to-be-identified young man pretending to be mentally retarded with a sack filled with dead babies in Lagos.
On Sunday, the fake mentally retarded man was caught along the Cele Expressway, Lagos by onlookers who noticed his bag dripping with blood.
When questioned, he was said to have given flimsy reasons before making a run for it and diving into the lake to escape capture.
According to an eyewitness, he was captured and handed over to the police after being tortured by the mob.
“We noticed his sack was dripping blood and we enjoined some street urchins to help us query the man further. He quickly ran into a lake but he was caught. We opened the sack and saw fresh dead babies.
When we interrogated him on what he was doing with the gory items, he refused to answer but noted that he killed the mother of the babies. We handed him over to the police for fear of him being lynched,” an eyewitness stated.
Meanwhile, operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT on Monday rescued 10 crew members of a capsized fishing trawler within Lagos channel.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the vessel christened OLOKUM XII was said to have capsized in the early hours of November 7 while it was being towed by another fishing trawler.
According to a statement on Monday night by Western Naval Command’s (WNC) Information Officer, Commander Edward Yeibo, the fishing trawler collided with a Merchant Vessel, MSC CORUNA, which led to its capsize.
“Fortunately, NNS BEECROFT patrol team was on routine patrol which led to the prompt rescue of 10 crew members from the trawler. Thereafter, the rescued crew were handed over to the officials of the company, named Barnaly Fishing Company Limited,” he said.
Yeibo said the Commander, NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Malami Haruna, commiserated with the fishing company over the “sad incident”, adding that he urged sea-farers to navigate with caution and due consideration to the international regulation for prevention of collision when transiting within the nation’s maritime domain.