Police arrest two for beating man to death in Lagos

Police arrest two for beating man to death in Lagos

Two persons have been apprehended in Lagos State for snuffing life out of a man, the police have disclosed.

The deceased was beaten to death over alleged stealing of car doors. The wife of the victim was said to have reported the incident at Iponri Police Division.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday.

Hundeyin said the suspects were arrested after the widow of the deceased reported the case last Thursday.

According to him, the woman said she was at home when she received a call that some people were beating her husband.

On getting to scene of the incident, she met her husband in a pool of his own blood.

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“In her report, she said they were beating her husband because he allegedly stole two doors of a car.

“She reported that on getting to the scene, she saw her husband in a pool of his blood and the assailants took him away in a tricycle.

“She further said that she heard later that her husband died on their way to the hospital and his corpse was abandoned in the tricycle,’’ Hundeyin said.

He explained that the Divisional Police Officer at Iponri mobilised detectives, who arrested the two suspects and recovered the lifeless body of the victim.

Those arrested were a 33-year-old man and a 34-year-old man.

“The corpse has been deposited at Mainland General Hospital mortuary, Yaba, for autopsy just as investigation has gone underway,” Hundeyin said.

Police arrest two for beating man to death in Lagos