Pick-Pocket Stabbed to Death

BY: BEBA KASHIMANA
A suspected pickpocket, whose identity is not yet known, has died in a hospital after he was stabbed at about 3 p.m. opposite Igando Police Station, Igando area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.

 Mr. Fredrick Ikuesan, who was at the scene of the incident, disclosed to newsmen that when he saw the bleeding victim, he quickly rushed into the police station to ask for police report so that he could take him to the hospital.

“I told a policeman at the station to please give me a report but he said no, that the victim was caught stealing, that is why he was stabbed so he will die there,” he explained.

Ikuesan disclosed that he didn’t see the man that stabbed the suspect on Wednesday because of the huge crowd that gathered at the scene.

Another eye witness claimed that he called the Lagos state ambulance to come to the victim’s rescue but there was no response from them.

Reports gathered reveals that the man who allegedly stabbed the victim has been arrested and is now in police custody at Igando station. A policeman at the station also confirmed that the culprit is already in their net.

When another police source at the station was contacted, he said: “We don’t have a case of pickpocket stabbed to death. The case we have is that of assault, armed robbery and the suspect was attacked by a mob.”

Another officer from the station who pleaded anonymity said: “we actually took him to about three hospitals, and he was rejected before he was taken to Igando General Hospital where he was transferred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, at the Emergency Ward.”

It was gathered that the victim died yesterday morning.