Teenager killed by police buried in Bayelsa amid tears
Emotions ran wild on Saturday at Ebebelibiri Cemetery, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as family members and sympathisers gathered to bury the remains of Master Innocent Kokorifa, a 17-year-old boy allegedly killed by police.
Innocent, the first of five children of Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, was shot dead in a controversial circumstance by the police Anti-Vice/Anti-Kidnapping team along Airforce Road in Yenagoa, on August 18, 2016.
The deceased was said to be running an errand for his mother, Pere Kokorifa, when he was allegedly killed by the police about 11am on that day. But the state police command had, in a statement shortly after the incident, claimed that the victim died in a gun battle between a three-man robbery gang and the police team.
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