Two women suspected to be kidnappers were lynched in Iwo, Osun State on Thursday by a mob.
Some residents of Iwo said three person, one male and two females, were caught after kidnaping a child and that the women were apprehended while the man escaped.
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It was gathered that the suspects were taken to the Palace of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, for the monarch to decide their fate.
A resident of Iwo, who preferred anonymity said; “when the two women were apprehended by the people, they were taken to the palace but the traditional ruler told the people that brought the suspects to take them away.”
But the palace spokesman, Ibrahim Ali, debunked this.
Ali told Daily Trust that Oluwo was not at the palace when the incident happened and that the crowd was expected to take the suspects to the police station, not palace.
The Commissioner of Police in the State, CP Adie Undie, told Daily Trust that the angry mob did not allow the policemen in the town to move near the scene.
The two women were beating to comma and set ablaze.
The people in the area were still combing houses to fish out the third suspect and lynch him.
