A teacher is reported by his son to have been beaten to death by vigilantes for attempting to rescue a newborn baby abandoned at a dumpsite.
The young man his father tried to help the newborn child crying at the dump site but was wrongly accused of child theft.
He identified himself as Ibrahim and told journalists that a woman shouted at his father and called him a child thief after spotting him with the toddler.
Premium Times reports that the teacher, Musa Mai-Almajirai was a well-known Islamic teacher in a community in Gwale Local Government Area of Kano State.
The report stated that shortly after the woman raised an alarm that the teacher wanted to steal a child, vigilantes in the area descended on him and beat him up.
The son of the teacher said that the vigilantes took him to their office to continue the beating and he lost consciousness in the process.
Ibrahim added that some residents in the community identified him and quickly rushed him to the hospital but he died before getting there.
The police is said to have arrested the commander of the vigilantes in the area and the abandoned child was handed over to the village head.
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