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Angry passengers beat up minibus tout
By
Our Reporter - 03-04-2002 |
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A Ndirande township minibus tout was badly beaten up yesterday morning by irate passengers when he attacked a conductor, who refused to give him more money.
Two touts clung to the door of the bus, registration number BC 9040 and belonging to a Mr. Kachala, as it left for Chilobwe township, demanding K50 cash from the conductor for their work. But the conductor only produced K40 after a long angry exchange of words.
One of the touts then punched the conductor while jumping from the moving bus about two hundred metres away.
The passengers’ patience snapped and they shouted at the driver to stop.
“Let’s go after him,” several of the passengers shouted as they piled out of the bus. But as the conductor approached him, the tout threw a stone which caught the conductor above the left eye, causing a deep cut.
It only made matters worse for the tout.
“This is the reason why these people are being chased in Lilongwe,” said one angry passenger.
About seven passengers caught up and set upon him with fists and kung-fu kicks. A half brick was seen coming down on his head at least twice.
Afterwards the bus driver did not heed calls to reverse the vehicle and take the now injured tout to a police station.
They left the clearly dazed young man standing beside the road. It was now the turn of the driver to get the verbal flak from the still seething passengers for not responding to their calls and for not helping the injured tout. |
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