The police said on Friday that, More than 100 people have been arrested in Lagos, after a bloody riots in the city’s biggest food market that left at least three people dead.
Meanwhile. other reports have put the death toll at between seven and 10.
Word on the street revealed that the riot began on Wednesday when a motorbike-taxi driver knocked down a woman at the market, where fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale.
The “okada” rider refused to take the woman to hospital despite appeals from onlookers. She later died, according to the police account.
The motorcyclists and market traders are predominantly Hausa, the main ethnic group in northern Nigeria.
The wider Mile 12 area is populated by Yoruba, who dominate the southwest. Ethnic tensions regularly flair in Nigeria, which is almost evenly split between a mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south. Similar clashes have previously erupted in the same market.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has
ordered the temporary closure of the Mile 12 Market.
The
Governor also announced the restriction of movement on four streets in
the area including Oniyanri Street, Maidan Street, Agiliti 1 and Agiliti
2 streets...
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/mile-12-market-riots-police-arrest-over-105-suspects/
No comments:
Post a Comment