Police React As Two Cart Pushers Die In Aba After A Bloody Fight

Abia state police command has reacted to the death of two cart pushers, whose identities cannot be verified after a bloody in Aba, commercial centre of the state.

PPRO of the command, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna urged that people should desist from taking laws into their hands at any slightest provocation, calling that issues of grievances should be reported to the police.

ABN TV gathered that a heated argument had ensued between the two cart pushers and later festered into a fight on Tuesday.

While the fight continued, one of the cart pushers dropped death.

This did not however go down well with an onlooker mob who lynched the surviving one to death on the spot.

SP Ogbonna said the Police had evacuated the bodies of the dead cart pushers to the mortuary.

Though the cause of the fight has not been fully ascertained, an eye-witness told our correspondent that the cart pushers had on Tuesday morning engaged themselves in a fight over who should carry some goods purchased by a trader at Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia.

He said the men engaged in a brutal fight using dangerous weapons on each other over N200 to be received for assisting the trader to carry the goods.

The sources said that as the fight raged, people intervened, but the men refused to heed the pleas of the owner of the goods and other persons to settle the matter.

The eyewitness said that one of the cart pushers stabbed the other in the abdomen, neck, and other parts of his body during the fight which resulted in the death of the man.

According to him, noticing that the other cart pusher had died, the assailant made to run away but a mob descended on him and killed him on the spot.