Mob burns Diamond, Sterling Banks over police killing of truck driver - Harbours

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Mob burns Diamond, Sterling Banks over police killing of truck driver

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Harboursandport.com: Lagos--- Truck drivers this morning burnt down branches of Diamond and Sterling bank along Creek Road following the killing of their colleague named Tunde by a Police officer attached to Diamond bank for refusing to part with N200. 

The incident which accord at about 10.30 am this morning harboursandport.com gathered resulted in pandemonium following sporadic shooting by men of the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Police to scare away angry truckers who were still building in the vicinity.
Following the shooting, other truck drivers who parked their trucks along the Creek Road besieged the bank by demanding that the policeman be handed to them. Other colleagues of the policeman at the bank refused to produce the police man and this infuriated the angry truckers who poured petrol on the bank and set it ablaze.
The policeman ran out about 400 meters away from the scene of the accident to take refuge at sterling bank. The angry mob chased him there demanding that the policeman be released to them but his fellow police officers refused to release him again resulting to the setting ablaze of the second bank.

That was before one of the truckers who was pouring petrol on the bank building was said to have been shot dead by one of the police officer on guard at the bank.
On seeing the flames some staff of sterling bank scaled through the fence into a neighbouring company Bolore, shipping company resulting in the attack and destruction of properties and about 10 cars parked in front of the company because the company was suspected to be sheltering the police officer.
A source at the venue said that the banks were also looted by the truckers.
However, an official of Diamond bank said that the truck driver had parked in front of the bank and that the policeman had asked to move front the front of the bank. The bank official said the truck driver with the truck number (AGL222XC) actually drove his truck from the front of the bank only to return to confront the police.

Another source told Harboursandport.com that the body of the deceased had since been deposited at the Apapa General Hospital.



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