A mob have reported beaten a security guard to death in the Gwallameji area of Bauchi metropolis, Bauchi State over a missing phone.

WuzupNaija gathered that 23-year-old Sunday Ezra was killed on Monday by the yet-to-be-identified persons at the New Trafford Hotel and Suites in area.

The incident happened around 2am on Monday.

According to sources, Ezra was accused of stealing the phone but he protested his innocence. However, the mob that gathered did not believe him and proceeded to beat him to have him confess but he was said to have maintained his innocence.

In the process, Ezra was said to have slumped and lost consciousness, while the missing phone was later found by a corps member who returned it.

Another source and a neighbour to the deceased, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that Ezra sustained fractures on his left arm and right leg as well as injuries to his face.

He added that the deceased was stripped and abandoned in a hut on the hotel premises until the security guard, who was to relieve him, saw him in that state and quickly alerted their security outsourcing firm.

The neighbour said,

“The security company sent its supervisor, who came to the place and when he saw Ezra’s condition, he informed his grandmother and she called me.

“We went to the Yelwa Divisional Police Station and made a report, but the police personnel said we should go and bring him.

“We went and conveyed him to the station in a tricycle and from there, we rushed him to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital around 2pm and medical officials pronounced him dead around 3.15pm.

“What surprised us was how they dumped him in that place for several hours without anyone taking him to the hospital until his colleague came.

“He sustained fractures in some parts of his body. It was while the doctor was trying to pass the drip to him that we noticed that he had stopped breathing.”

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