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From Patrick Egwu, Enugu
(Enugu, Nigeria) A mad man has escaped being lynched in Enugu yesterday after
hitting a small school boy with an iron rod when he was coming back from
holiday lessons.
The incident which occurred at Edinburgh roundabout popularly
known as Council in Obiagu at about 1:30 pm, drew the attention of passers-by.
The mad man who met the small boy when he was going home from a lesson,
was visibly angry and couldn't withstand the small boy walking in the same lane
with him. He angrily used an iron rod which he picked nearby to hit the boy on
the head.
The school boy whose identity was not immediately known, fell down
on the ground and became unconscious.
Women around the place shouted for help and this drew the
attention of the angry youths who came with different dangerous weapons and
nearly lynched the mad man to death before passers-by started pleading on his
behalf, that he should be spared.
The youths, after much pleading from members of the public,
decided to leave him and instructed him to leave there environment immediately
or else they would kill him.
The child who was still shivering and in shock, was thereafter
taken to the hospital for treatment as blood was gushing out from his head.
A witness, Mr. Ben Okoro lamented that same thing happened early
this year at Ogbete main market and Garki.
"A mad man nearly killed a woman at Ogbete market early this
year if not because people who intervened and rescued her, she would have been
killed by the violent mad man. Likewise, the same thing happened at Gariki
axis. The federal and state governments should bring out a measure to control
the rate of alarming violent mad people in the country before it will turn to
sometime else," he said.
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