This is a picture from the scene of the event. The woman pictured below was accused of attempting to kidnap three primary school pupils in Ekoro area of Abule-Egba, Lagos State, an eye-witness claimed that the woman stopped the kids, who were aged 7-10 years as they were going to school and volunteered to take them to school.
Unknowing to the suspect, there was a female hawker in the area, suspecting the woman was up to no good, alerted others in the area who then surrounded the woman and started asking her questions.
They said the woman claimed they were her children but when asked to give their names, she couldn't and the direction she was taking them wasn't where their school was, the children were asked if they knew the suspect they said not only do they not know, they have also not seen her before. Before anyone could stop it, the angry mob descended on the woman, beating her to a stupor and then setting her ablaze