July 3 Rally: Autopsy Report Of Woman Killed During Protest Shows She Was Shot

• Witnesses at the rally had said that the deceased was hit in the back as she, alongside others, was fleeing from the scene of the police shootings

Contrary to police authorities claims, the autopsy report of Jumoke Oyeleke, the woman who was shot dead during a Yoruba nation rally in Lagos on July 3, has revealed that she died of “hemopericardium, disruption to the heart and lungs and missile injury to the chest.”

The autopsy, according to the report, was carried out at the Department of Pathology and Forensic of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) by S.S Soyemi (Dr).

The autopsy report stated that the 25-year-old woman died at 11:30 a.m., during the protest.

The police had attempted to disperse the peaceful rally at the Gani Fawehnimi Freedom Park in Ojota by firing guns and tear gas canisters into the air.

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Eyewitnesses had said that the deceased was hit in the back as she, alongside others, was fleeing from the scene of the police shootings.

But the police, in a swift response, issued a statement saying its officers never fired a “single live bullet” at the rally.

According to the statement, the deceased’s body “was found wrapped and abandoned at a distance, far from Ojota venue of the rally, behind MRS Filling Station, inward Maryland, on the other side of the venue, with dried blood stains suggesting that the corpse is not fresh. After a close look at the corpse, a wound suspectedly sustained from a sharp object was seen on it.”

An uncle to the deceased also said the police were also yet to give the family closure concerning their investigation of the incident.

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