Security operatives in Bauchi have arrested three suspects over the lynching of a police constable in Konkiyel village of Darazo Local Government Area of the state on July 25.
The police spokesman in the state, SP Ahmed Wakil, who disclosed this in Bauchi on Wednesday, stated that six of the suspects’ accomplices were still at large.
Wakil stated that the constable, Mr Bala Magaji was on official duty in Konkiyel village when he was attacked by the mob that cut him with a machete and pelted him with stones to his head.
He explained that one of the suspects confessed that they attacked the constable in the dark and dealt him multiple machete blows while other accomplices used stones and sticks to hit the officer on the head, resulting in various injuries and blood loss.
Wakil noted that sympathisers rushed the constable to the General Hospital, Darazo, in a bid to rescue him, where he was certified dead by a medical doctor.
He assured suspects still at large would be arrested and brought to justice.
Wakil urged members of the public to be law-abiding and desist from taking the laws into their hands.
