A teenage girl was on Saturday allegedly hit by a stray bullet as security agents clashed with the Yoruba Nation agitators in Ojota, Lagos.
According to an eye witness, the body of the girl identified as Jumoke was found in front of No. 428, Ikorodu Road, close to Ojota Motor Park.
A trader Tosin Oyemade told NAN that the deceased was her salesgirl.
She said, “I asked her this morning to go and open the shop while I went to church for an event, planning to join her later.
“My cousin called me while in church that the police had killed Jumoke; I quickly rushed down only to see her dead body in the pool of her blood.
“I was told that while the police were shooting, that people started running toward the compound (No. 428, Ikorodu Road) where Jumoke fell down bleeding.”
But the police spokesperson Muyiwa Adejobi said in a statement that the police “did not fire a single live bullet at Ojota rally today”.
He said it was “a calculated attempt to create confusion and fears in the minds of the good people of Lagos State and the country at large.”
Mr Adejobi added, “The said corpse was found wrapped and abandoned at a distance, far from Ojota venue of the rally, behind MRS Filling Station, inward Maryland, on the other side of the venue, with dried blood stains suggesting that the corpse is not fresh.”
The police also used teargas and water canon to disperse the Yoruba Nation agitators who gathered at Gani Fawehinmi Park.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed sources told NAN that five persons were arrested at the park.
