Two One-Chance Robbers Escape Being Set Ablaze As They Receive Merciless Beating (Photos)

A two-man robbery gang which allegedly specializes in robbing passengers of their belongings, popularly called one-chance has escaped being burnt alive in Umuahia, Abia State capital, ABN TV reports.

According to sources familiar with their modus operandi, the suspects who operate with tricycles, better known as keke usually hypnotize their victims or threaten them with sharp objects, before robbing them of their belongings.

They are also alleged to engage in phone hacking which gives them access to transfer victims’ money through the banking application stored in their phones.

Luck however ran out of them around the popular Golden Guinea Breweries along Aba road in Umuahia when past victims upon boarding their keke raised alarm, attracting the neighbourhood.

ABN TV gathered that this attracted them a merciless beating, even as their tricycle was fatally destroyed.

Observing that they stood the risk of being set ablaze by the angry mob, the suspect allegedly confessed their crimes and started begging for mercy, a resident said.

However, the intervention of some elders in the crowd saved the suspected robbers from being burnt alive, after they were pounded to pulp.