A police man is currently cooling his heels in detention after shooting sporadically during a burial killing two mourners on the scene.
The people of Fugar in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State are reliving the tragedy which occured last month when a a police officer, attached to a traditional ruler, shot dead two women during the burial of a former headmaster, Hon. James Oshioriamhe Etu.
Other mourners at the occasion took to their heels following the gunshots which hit Sandra Emaku and Aishitu Aliyu, both of them nursing mothers.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that trouble started when the children of the deceased were dancing as part of the funeral rites.
One of the traditional rulers (names withheld) who graced the occasion stood up to leave. As if drunk, one of the police officers attached to the monarch started shooting sporadically with one hand. The two women fell to the bullets of the officer.
While Sandra was a relation of the deceased headmaster, Aishatu, who is not from that community, came to mourn with her friend, Christiana Adams, a daughter of the deceased.
The burial ceremony ended abruptly.
Angry youths attacked the police officer but the intervention of the Chairman of the LGA, Mr Emmanuel Momoh; John Akigbe; and other leaders in the area saved him, even as he was disarmed immediately by the members of a vigilante group at the burial.
Edo State Police Commissioner described the incident as accidental discharge, saying however that the suspect had been arrested and will face the law accordingly.