Mob kills suspected motorcycle snatcher in Bauchi

A suspected motorcycle thief has been mobbed and killed in Magama-Gumau in Toro LGA of Bauchi.

It was gathered that the young man whose identity could not ascertained was noticed in the afternoon of Sunday, 17th March, loitering around a Mosque in the town which is along the Bauchi – Jos Federal highway.

Later on, he was said to have forcefully on a motorcycle parked and started moving it away from the point where it was parked around the Mosque.

Unfortunately for him, the owner of the motorcycle was said to have sighted him from inside the Mosque, ran out, and chased after him shouting “barawo, barawo” (Thief, thief).

At the hearing of the shout, people chased and caught up with him though he abandoned the stolen motorcycle and tried to escape from the scene.

The source said that because it was a market of the town, a mob quickly gathered holding planks and other objects with which he was hit several times until he died from the beating.

Before Police operatives could arrive at the scene, the mob had disappeared leaving him dead in a pool of his own blood.

The Police later evacuated the body and deposited it at the morgue of Toro General Hospital while no arrest had been made as of the time of filling this report on Monday.

Efforts to get official confirmation from the State Police Command proved abortive as the PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili neither picked up the phone nor responded to the SMS and WhatsApp messages sent to his mobile number as of the time of filling this report on Monday.