A young man suspected to be an internet fraudster known as ‘Yahoo Boy’ has crushed two people to death in an in ljoka area, Akure, the Ondo state capital on Monday morning.
An eyewitness said that the victims were crushed to death by a ‘yahoo boy’, who goes by the name Seun and a son of a popular cocoa merchant in Ondo state.
According to him “The Yahoo boy was driving a Toyota car along the road and suddenly skidded off its lane to crush the victims who were on commercial motorcycles also known as Okada.
Immediately the accident happened some sympathizers who rushed to rescue the victims and the driver, later found some fetish items inside the driver’s vehicle, raising suspension that he is a ‘yahoo boy’.
Angered by their discovery in the car, the sympathizers descended on the driver and beat him to a point of comatose.
” For the timely intervention of the men of the state police command, who arrived at the scene, the driver and his vehicle would have been set ablaze by the mob following what they discovered in his vehicle.
The Police officer, who rescued the driver from the mob, declined comment.
The deceased was later taken to the state hospital mortuary while those injured were treated at the same hospitals.