A schoolboy was killed on Tuesday in the Alakia–Gbagi neighborhood of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by a stray bullet allegedly fired by a policeman.
The boy’s father is alleged to have violated a traffic signal during the rush hour, which is when the incident reportedly began.
He was allegedly pursued by some policemen in an attempt to fend off arrest.
One of the policemen apparently fired at the fledgling car to disarm it by aiming at its tires.
The child was allegedly fatally wounded when the bullet struck him while he was driving with his father.
The officer fired and struck the boy instead of trying to stop the car. One witness described how quickly things happened along Gbagi Market Road.
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The victim was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, where she had been declared dead shortly afterward.
A mob allegedly moved the student’s corpse to the Oyo State Secretariat, where they staged a protest demanding that the state government be held accountable.
The police have not yet released an official statement regarding the shooting as of the time of filing this report.
Source: Channels TV
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