The Delta State Police Command has arrested 17 suspects following an attack on the driver of a tipper that caused an accident in Ovwian, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State
.
One person was critically injured in the melee.
It was learnt that a bullion van, bearing cash to be delivered to a bank in the area, drove against the traffic.
It forced a tipper truck on its lane to swerve and run into a female pedestrian. The tipper crushed her legs on the spot.
The development angered the residents, who laid siege to the bank’s premises.The situation led to police reinforcement, which further angered the residents. They damaged one of the police vans. Police spokesman Celestina Kalu, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), said the
accident victim, as at the time a police dropped her at the Delta State
University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, was alive.
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