Operatives of the Azikiwe Police Division in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have rescued a woman identified as Maria Kobara from a mob after she was accused of stealing and abducting a 12-year-old girl along Owo Street in Mile 2, Diobu, Port Harcourt.
An eyewitness, Mr. Nelson Ogiriya, who spoke to our correspondent, said he encountered a crowd gathered on Owo Street and decided to find out what happened.
Ogiriya said that but for the quick intervention of the police on that fateful day (Saturday, June 13), the woman would have been lynched.
He stated: “As I was passing, I saw a crowd on Owo Street, so I tried to find out what was happening. I discovered that a woman was taking a 12-year-old girl to church when another woman stopped her and asked who the child was to her.
“The woman explained that the girl’s mother had asked her to
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