Three female undergraduates were yesterday beaten to a pulp by an angry mob of market women at the popular Asaba Ogbegonogo market, in Delta State for allegedly stealing underwear from a boutique.
Sources say the suspects were caught with the pants after they had pretended to be customers and paid for two different ones selected from the hangers.
The suspects who are undergraduates of the state owned university were said to be regular visitors to the market. Hence most of the traders trusted them.
But the trust the traders have in them as regular customers was short-lived when one of them, a 200 level mass communication student (names withheld) sought to be accompanied to where they could buy good pants and the suspects paid for two packets of mixed coloured pants and in the process allegedly removed three other packets alongside the ones they bought.
Luck however ran out on them as the trader suddenly noticed the removal of some packets from where they were displayed.
They were said to have been beaten severely by the angry market women who raced to the scene of the incident.
Police authorities at the ‘A’ Division Asaba confirmed the incident.