An unidentified man, believed to be in his 30s, was lynched by a mob at Matthew Street, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, for allegedly eating human faeces with bread.
The incident, which occurred in the early hours of yesterday, attracted people from various parts of the town, with traffic held up for several hours, as the suspect was led round parts of the state capital, including Okeyinmi, Matthew Street, Ijigbo and Odo-Ado, where he was finally lynched.
Eyewitnesses told newsmen that the man, now lying dead and partly burnt, was a suspected ritualist caught red-handed consuming faeces with a loaf of bread.
Sources claimed that the man was sighted by an unidentified elderly woman, who raised the alarm which prompted youths of the area to arrest him. Read more