Video: Police officer beaten by angry mob for causing accident

A police officer was beaten by an angry mob for causing an accident after he grabbed the steering wheel from the kombi driver. An unnamed passenger told The Chronicle that a police officer had ordered a kombi driver to drive to Drill Hall Police Station but changed his mind and seemed to ask for a bribe. The driver did not to cooperate, resulting in the cop grabbing the steering wheel.

The Bulawayo United Public Transporters Association (Bupta) kombi uprooted a pillar and crashed into a glass display at a hardware shop at the corner of Third Avenue and Lobengula Street in Bulawayo around 10AM. Witnesses said the commuter omnibus which had been impounded by police at a check point near McKeurtan Primary School “dangerously zigzagged across the road” as the driver and the unnamed cop wrestled for the steering wheel. The driver is said to have sustained minor injuries. Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango yesterday said she was yet to receive a report of the issue.

Watch the video below: