While what happened in Sokoto state of Nigeria, where the terrible scene took place, chilled the blood, the statements of an eyewitness who did not reveal his identity were included. The eyewitness said, “There is a group on the phone that is used by students. There was a sharing. After that sharing, what happened. Young university student Deborah Samuel was first lynched and then burned.”
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THEY TURNED IT OUT OF THE ROOM AND SET ON FIRE
In the statement of the Sokoto police, it was determined that Samuel, who was studying at the Shehu Shagari Education College, was killed because of an “insulting post”, a police spokesperson said that the students at the school rioted due to the post, and the school administration protected the young girl by placing them in a room, but the spokesperson said that the angry students Samuel He said that he took the student out of the room, beat him with a stone and a stick, and then set the student on fire. Another eyewitness said, “The students attacked the police with stones and sticks. They could not save the woman either. They beat Samuel and then set him on fire.”
Videos of the gruesome lynchings and burnings showed Deborah’s killers rejoicing at their deed by showing the matchbox in which they burned the body.
2 PEOPLE ARRESTED
University officials closed the institution indefinitely after the incident. Police reportedly arrested 2 suspects, but most of them have still not been found.