Suspect narrowly escapes lynching over alleged attempted abduction of 5-yr-old girl in Abuja

A suspect, Bashir Usman, has narrowly escaped lynching after he was rescued by operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command over an alleged attempt to abduct a five-year-old girl in Kuje .
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
Adeh said the command received a distress call at about 2:46 pm on October 4 that an unidentified man was being assaulted by an angry mob over alleged child abduction.
According to her, operatives from Kuje Division were immediately dispatched to the scene at Angwan Lado, Kuje Area Council, where Usman was rescued from the irate mob.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that ...