Two female undergraduate students of the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Friday, dressed in Hijab, the female wear for Musilms escaped death in the hands of an irate mob after they mistaken for suicide bombers.
Eyewitnesses say some members of the public at the Central mosque Minna raised alarm that the two ladies were suspected to be suicide bombers.
Their mode of dressing and the bags they were carrying attracted the attention of other worshippers and this led to the raising of alarm but for Police intervention the two ladies would have been lynched to death.
One of the victims was injured by the irate crowd and she is currently receiving treatment from Police Clinic in Minna.
Niger State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ibrahim Gambari who confirmed the incident said that the two victims were wrongly accused.
“When the attention of our men on duty was drawn to the ladies, they were subjected to bodily search and their bags also whisked and nothing incriminating were found on them. We were able to establish that the two of them are returning students of FUT Minna. Their mode of dressing made people to suspect them.
“It took the timely intervention of our men as members of the public had started to beat up one of the ladies leading to the point of sustaining some injuries and she is being treated at the Police Clinic,” Gambari stated.
According to the PPRO, “The crowd that came round when the ladies were been searched would have been affected should the suspects be suicide bombers and were carrying bombs”.
The students are still been kept in Police custody.