Irate youths have attacked $57 million Delta City Mall in Effurun, Delta State, destroying properties and looting shops as they protested lack of employment opportunities and other benefits.
The mall, where 12,000 people shop daily, houses popular retailer Shoprite and several others.
A citizen reporter said one of the youths have been caught with seven phones in his pocket, beleived to have been stolen from one of the stores in the mall, BestMobile store.
This is one of the stores that was ransacked by the youths #DeltaMall #UnderSiege pic.twitter.com/g2jAzbgat0
— CHANGE !!!! (@afunzo) January 8, 2016
#DeltaMall after the havoc …. Destruction everywhere !!! pic.twitter.com/VOdWWRf9sS
— CHANGE !!!! (@afunzo) January 8, 2016