Two people were hurt yesterday after an operative of the Department of State Service allegedly shot at a man in a market in Abuja’s Garki 2 district.
According to reports, a woman called a DSS agent to confront a tailor she had handed clothes to work on after delaying the project for some time.
To avoid being manhandled by the DSS agent, the tailor fled, but he was shot in the leg by the DSS operative, and a bullet also struck a girl nearby.
Consequently, the other tailors in the market descended on the shooter and beat him up, as well as the police outpost in the market after the police officers there came to the aide of the DSS operative.
The police thereafter reinforced and returned to the market, firing teargas to disperse the angry tailors.
Meanwhile, the FCT police command in a statement explained that normalcy has been restored to the area and weapons used during the altercation have been recovered.