The mistake of another man
Tragedy struck on Saturday as a soldier
reportedly opened fire on a tricycle at Jakpa Junction, Effurun, near
Warri, resulting in the instant killing of a woman who was on her way
from her daughter’s wedding.
press learnt that the middle-aged
woman had decided to take a commercial tricycle to a relation’s place
near the venue of the wedding in order to make it in time as the
state-wide compulsory monthly environmental sanitation was in progress.
The wedding ceremony reportedly commenced very early in order to beat
the sanitation exercise.
However, the soldier was said to have
flagged down the tricyclist at Jakpa Junction, claiming it was not yet
10 a.m., the official time for ending the environmental sanitation
exercise across the state.
However, one of the soldiers aimed his
gun at the tricycle as the rider was apparently not going to stop,
shooting dead the woman in the process.
press learnt that the incident
occurred at about 8.30a.m. though the body of the deceased woman was
brought to the Ekpan police state later, before being taking to the
morgue by the police at about 10.10 a.m.
Amid sketchy and incoherent reports, the deceased mother was billed to preside at the bride’s wedding ceremony today (Saturday).
First daughter of the deceased, Alero,
narrated the family’s ordeal to newsmen in Warri, confirming that the
soldier fired a bullet straight at her mother hitting her in the chest
just under her left breast.
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