NEIGHBOURHOOD GUARDS BEATS PHOTO JOURNALIST COVERING THE RELEASE OF CORPSE OF DANA CRASH VICTIMS.

A JOURNALIST BEATEN

The Neighbourhood Guards today descended so low to the level of ‘Area Boys’ as they pounced on photo-journalists covering the release of corpse of Dana crash victims at the Ikeja General Hospital Mortuary, using bottles and sticks to ward off the media men.

Under the watch of the police, Benedict Iwalaka of Leadership Newspaper was beaten to stupor by the Neighbourhood Guards for daring to do his job, while the camera belonging to Kola Olasupo of This Day was seized and crushed.

Right now, Iwalaka is who has just regained consciousness is still drench in a pool of his own blood and is receiving treatment at the hospital.
Akinola Ariyo of New Nigeria Newspaper has to hurriedly beat a retreat to escape the lynch but was no so lucky as his work-tool still got damaged.

The men of the Neighborhood team claimed that they were being crowded by journalists, hence the attack every journalist on sight..