The victims, a man and a woman, were mobbed at separate intervals along Gaskiya Road. An unnamed middle-aged man who was sighted with a garment containing a dead bird and iPhone was the first victim of the mob justice.
He was said to have been burnt alive around 2pm on Wednesday after some persons claimed to have heard him telling someone on the phone that he could not get any child.
Some residents claimed the man immediately threw his phone into the canal when he was accosted while others said his accusers collected the phone from him.
Without giving him room to defend himself, the mob stoned the man, put tyres around his neck and set him ablaze, said a resident.
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