Police begin investigations into Wulugu lynching
Police in the North East Region have begun investigations into the lynching of a 27-year-old at Wulugu.
The victim, Sanugu Abdulai, a truck driver’s assistant, was travelling with his master to Burkina Faso, on the Tamale–Bolga highway, when he was mistaken for a robber by an angry mob.
The mob attacked him with sticks and stones, lynching him before incinerating his body.
Fifty-four-year-old, Baro Drasa, the deceased’s master, narrating to Joy News what happened said they had made a stop at the Wulugu town following an ongoing robbery operation by two armed men on a motorcycle.
He said out of fear his mate came down from the vehicle thinking the robbers were targeting them.
According to him, his panicked mate run in the direction of the escaped robbers and wh...