Diamond Bank has been set on fire. A mob set the bank’s branch on Burma Road, Apapa, Lagos on fire after a policeman attached to the bank allegedly shot dead some trailer drivers.

The mob also set a Sterling Bank branch on Wharf Road ablaze. We gathered that the trailer drivers had indiscriminately parked in front of the bank.

Angered by the killing and the bank’s refusal to hand over the policeman to them, the driver’s colleagues moved to set the bank ablaze, destroying properties and other valuables.

Policemen from Rapid Response Squad (RRS), anti-riot squad and Area B command, as well as operatives from the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECEOFT have been deployed to the scene of the incident.