One person was reportedly killed by a stray bullet fired by the Police after hoodlums attacked Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s convoy in Sokoto on Saturday.
The victim who was an innocent bystander was identified as 22yr old Imran Ahmad-Alkanci.
Before Imran was hit by the police stray bullet, he was on his way home after paying a visit to several relations.
He was hit as he was attempting to board a commercial motorcycle to leave the area.
The incident happened as Governor Tambuwal was received by a crowd of supporters who accompanied his motorcade from the Airport to the government house.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of Sokoto Police Command, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, informed newsmen that another individual was injured during the unfortunate incident and has since been hospitalised.
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The Sokoto state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had organised a reception rally to welcome Tambuwal after his failed attempt to secure the 2019 presidential ticket of the party in Rivers state.
The governor, who was received by a crowd of supporters at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto, went to the Government House in a motorcade.
The rally was however hijacked by political thugs armed with dangerous weapons who destroyed billboards, building structures and vehicles bearing inscriptions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the area.
A car bearing the APC logo and travelling to Sokoto from Bodinga was also set ablaze by a mob along the Sokoto State University.
Consequently, the motorcade was forced to stop along Gawon Nama, near the residence of Sen. Aliyu Wamakko.
The situation would however get worse when another set of weapon wielding mob confronted the motorcade of the governor, prompting a reaction from security agencies who shot sporadically in the air to save the situation.
It was in the effort of security operatives to save the situation from further degenerating that Imran was hit by one of the stray bullets fired into the air to disperse the hoodlums.