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Hooded operatives shoot at journalists, protesters at Abuja Stadium

Aug. 3, 2024

Hooded operatives shoot at journalists, protesters at Abuja Stadium

Admin By Adewale Adewale
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Masked operatives, Saturday shot at journalists covering the ongoing protests at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja.

Operatives have attacked and arrest many journalists in the process of the ongoing strike.

Masked operatives who had dispersed protesters at the venue of the protest giving them hot chase, came for the journalists who were at a separate spot.

As they approached, journalists fled, scrambling into any available vehicle.

The masked security operatives fired sporadically at the fleeing journalists.

Bullets pierced a Premium Times reporter’s car conveying journalists out of the location at three different locations.

Journalists inside the car shot by security agents are those of The Punch, The Cable, Premium Times, and Peoples Gazette.

The operatives has dispersed the protesters from the facility with gunshots.

The protesters were reconvening after being dispersed by security agents deployed to the stadium.

Suddenly, masked security operatives suspected to be personnel of the Department of State Services started shooting sporadically at protesters.

As a result, the protesters ran inside bushes around the stadium with some of the security operatives giving them a hot chase.

Also, a commuter vehicle’s glass was shattered with bullets.

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