Videos showing some angry citizens of Niger Republic beating up a female politician and another male politician have surfaced on social media and have gone viral.
The videos are making rounds on the internet at a time the country is going through a coup in which some members of the nation’s military force decided to take over power and force the President, Mohamed Bazoum to step down from power and vacate office.
As seen in the video shared by popular security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama via his Twitter handle, the youths attacked a female politician and beat her up.
Luckily for her, however, some other youths intervened and rescued her from the mob before much harm could be done to her.
Also, another unidentified male politician was similarly attacked.
Their offences could not be ascertained as of press time.
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