Tragedy struck at the Oba Ile community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State on Thursday as a mentally-derailed man killed an officer of the state command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
The deceased was said to have been stabbed to death by the 19-year-old suspect during a struggle between them.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that the incident happened when the mother of the suspect invited the NSCDC operatives to help her chain him down, not to cause trouble in the community.
He said, “When the boy started misbehaving this morning, his mother invited two civil defence officers to help her chain him.”
Meanwhile, in the process of chaining him, he overpowered the civil defence man and removed the knife from the man and stabbed him.