Dana Air Crash Victims Relatives, Mortuary Attendants Brutalise Photojournalist

Some relatives of victims of the June 3, 2012 Dana Air crash as well as mortuary attendants and securitymen at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday brutalised a photojournalist with Leadership Newspaper, Mr. Benedict Nwalaka.
The assailants also attacked some journalists who had gone to witness the handing over of bodies of the Dana crash victims’ bodies to their relatives.

It was learnt that the attackers were trying to stop the journalists from taking photographs of the handing over.

In the process, one of them seized his camera.

As he was trying to retrieve his camera, the mortuary attendants, crash victims’ relatives and securitymen attacked him and some other journalists at the scene with various weapons.

Policemen at the scene did nothing to stop the assault, leaving Walaka bleeding from his head and parts of his body.

Culled from PUNCH