Commotion in Festac As Police Kill 2 Fuel Black Marketers

There was commotion in Festac Town, Lagos,

 following the killing of two fuel black marketers by

 a task force made of Police and Civil Defence 

officials. The killing of the marketers occurred

 around 1pm at the Forte oil petrol station also 

known as AP bus stop located a 21 Road, I close.

It was gathered that trouble began when some black marketers resisted

 efforts by the task force who 

were seizing petroleum products from road side

 vendors and giving them out free to motorcycle 

riders.

When the security agents got to Forte oil petrol 

station, they became overwhelmed by several black marketers and began to shoot sporadically to 

disperse the crowd, killing two persons in the 

process.

Angered by the conduct of the security officials,

 some persons tried to set the petrol station on 

fire as a means of venting their anger, but this

 made the Police Civil Defence officials fire more 

rounds into the air to disperse the angry crowd. 

One black marketer named Shina was shot in the 

buttocks by a stray bullet, while others persons 

suffered varying degree of injuries in the process 

of running to safety.

As at the time of writing this report, smoke was seen billowing from the

 Forte Oil petrol station, but it was 

unclear if it was the petrol station that was in flames 

or some other object as Dailytimes reporter had to 

scamper for safety due to sporadic shooting by the 

police.