Three suspects have been arrested by men of the Bauchi Police Command in connection with their alleged involvement in the lynching of a police constable.
The cop was reportedly lynched in Konkiyel village of Darazo Local Government Area of the state on July 25.
SP Ahmed Wakil, the state police spokesman, disclosed in Bauchi that six accomplices of the suspects were still on the run.
Wakil explained that the constable, Mr. Bala Magaji, who was in the area on official duty was lynched by the suspects, who dealt him machete blows and pelted him with stones.
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“Three suspects have so far been arrested over the incident while six others are still on the run.
“Suspects arrested have confessed to the gruesome killing of the officer with a machete, sticks and stones,’’ he stated.
One of the suspects, the police spokesman further said, confessed that they attacked the constable in the dark and dealt him multiple machete blows.
“Other accomplices used stones and sticks to hit the officer on the head, resulting in multiple injuries and loss of blood.
Wakil added: “Sympathisers rushed the constable to the General Hospital, Darazo, where he was certified dead by a medical doctor.’’
He adjoined the people to be law-abiding but also assured that the flering suspects would be apprehended and dealt with according to the law of the land.