A suspected thief was on Tuesday nabbed, stripped naked and lynched in Owerri, Imo State capital.
Nemesis caught up with the victim, simply identified as Chioma, while trying to steal a baby boy at the Ogugba Park, in Owerri.
Vanguard reports that before the angry mob clubbed her to death, Chioma said she was the only daughter of her parents and hailed from Obudi Agwa in Oguta local council area, but lived at Ogbaku in Mbaitoli local government area of the state.
An eyewitness who gave her name as Nnenna, claimed that “the lady carefully took the little boy from where his mother laid him”.
“The angry mob was not prepared to listen to those that wanted her to be handed over to the police for proper investigation. Barely a few minutes after stripping her, the mob descended on her and the rest became history”, Nnenna recounted.
The mother of the narrowly-escaped infant thanked God for saving her family from the agony that would have befallen them.
She thanked those who caught the child thief early enough and stopped her from taking her child away.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, could not be reached for comment at the moment.
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