A man whose name MMI is yet to obtain was arrested at about 7:20 p.m. today in Muea, Buea after he butchered another man to near death with a matchet for allegedly hurting his dog.
Thanks to the timely intervention of officers from the Third District Police Station in Muea, the man’s life was saved from the mob that had engulfed his abode, where he was taking refuge.
He was arrested from the one-room house at Quarter 5, Muea, where he had been hiding for close to an hour as the police and the population combed the locality in search of him.
The victim, a yet-to-be-identified young man, was rushed to the hospital after sustaining a serious matchet cut on the head.
Eyewitnesses say both men had a brief argument where the perpetrator reportedly accused the victim of harming his dog and proceeded to raise a matchet, inflicting a deadly wound on his head.
Alerted about what had happened, irate youths, hundreds of them, stormed the house of the perpetrator intending to strangle him to death before the police’s prompt intervention.
Upon arresting him, the officers fired several rounds of gunshots to disperse the crowd, which had vowed to not let the perpetrator live.
“That man should have been dead if not for the police,” one of the onlookers could be heard telling his friend as the police took off with the man, trailed by a large crowd.
“Indeed the police saved him,” the friend responded.
The perpetrator is reported to have been a married man with three children.
The angry population, seeing that he had been taken away, vented anger on the perpetrator’s dog. They strangled the small black dog to death and immediately set fire near the house to make a feast of it.
