A yet-to-be-identified policeman has been pummeled by a mob after a man identified simply as Yusuf got rammed by a BRT bus due to a push by police officers.
According to report, the accident was caused by policemen who allegedly pushed the man in front of BRT bus in the Ketu area of Lagos State.
The crowd in anger, beat the policeman to a stupor.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said that the policeman and his colleagues were attempting to dispossess Yusuf of his vehicle when he got pushed into the BRT lane.
In the process, one of the BRT buses plying the lane inward Lagos rammed into Yusuf who collapsed due to the impact of the crash.
The uniform of the brutalised policeman had been torn due to the impact of the attack on him by the angry mob while people were also seen lamenting over the incident and blaming the policeman and his colleagues for causing the accident.
However, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, is yet to react to the incident as of the time this report was filed.