Suspected phone snatchers stab man in FCT community
Suspected phone snatchers on a motorcycle have reportedly stabbed and injured a man identified as Lawal Ibrahim while escaping with his phone in the Dagiri community in the Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT. A resident of Dagiri, Samaila Alhassan, said the incident happened on Wednesday, near the LEA Primary School in the area. He […]
Suspected phone snatchers on a motorcycle have reportedly stabbed and injured a man identified as Lawal Ibrahim while escaping with his phone in the Dagiri community in the Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.
A resident of Dagiri, Samaila Alhassan, said the incident happened on Wednesday, near the LEA Primary School in the area.
He said the victim was returning from a shop where he went to buy some items around 9:47 p.m. when two phone snatchers on a motorcycle attacked him with a knife.
He said he was inside his house when he heard the victim screaming through the window, and he quickly rushed out to find the victim lying on the ground in a pool of his blood.
“It was at that point I quickly alerted some vigilantes who arrived at the scene. But by then, the hoodlums had already fled on their bike,” he said.
Alhassan said the victim, who was stabbed in the right arm, was immediately rushed to the hospital by the vigilante.
A member of the vigilante, Dahiru Usman, also confirmed the incident to our reporter via telephone on Thursday.
He said the victim was attacked by two young men on a bike who later escaped with the victim’s phone, adding that the victim has since been taken to the hospital for treatment.
The vigilante member, who decried the frequent cases of phone snatching in the Dagiri and Bako communities, said, “In fact, there is no day that passes by without a report of hoodlums attacking residents and escaping with their phones.”
A police source in Gwagwalada who preferred anonymity also confirmed the incident, saying the police are investigating the matter and are working to track down the hoodlums.