UPPER NIMBA – A fistfight between two officers of the Liberia National Police (LNP) in Nimba County, has left one of the officers, Patrolman Elton Bahn critically wounded, leading to him being hospitalized, Rural Reporters News Network (RRNN) has reliably gathered.
Patrolman Bahn and an LNP officer of the Police Support Unit (PSU), Jeremiah Takpor, had a clash over a food-related disagreement, resulting in a brawl that sent Officer Bahn to the hospital, with reports of him suffering a spinal cord injury.
The brawl between both men started in a local eatery where they had gone early last weekend to have breakfast when according to an eyewitness account, Officer Bahn allegedly took the last chicken foot left in the soup of the food they were jointly eating, an act according to our informants, which angered PSU Officer Takpor, whom they quoted as terming such action as a gross disrespect from Bahn, his (Takpor’s) subordinate officer.
Officer Takpor then quickly reacted by attempting to forcibly take away the chicken foot from Bahn, who put up a stiff resistance that led to a scuffle between the two police officers.
After a brief moment of tussle between Bahn and Takpor, the latter overpowered the former, who reportedly went unconscious, and was rushed to the Karnplay Comprehensive Health Center from where he was later transferred to the John F. Kennedy Hospital, in Monrovia due to the severity of the injury he sustained as a result of the fight with PSU Officer Takpor.
Meanwhile, sources have divulged to RRNN that Patrolman Bahn allegedly sustained a spinal cord injury resulting from his fight with PSU Officer Takpor.
Our sources indicated that medical practitioners have already advised that injured police officer Bahn be flown abroad, preferably to India, for advanced medical treatment.
Edited by Olando Testimony Zeongar.
