A yet-to-be-identified female officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, was on Saturday morning, crushed by an operational van of the Corps during a show of force exercise in Abuja.

It was gathered that the incident occurred during a convoy manoeuvre exercise at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

According to a viral video, the officers were conducting a force demonstration when tragedy struck.

An eyewitness account had it that that the accident occurred on Saturday during their show of force while they were displaying operational movement with their vehicles when one of the vans rammed into a female officer and ran over her.

It was said that the female officer either fell from the moving vehicle, possibly from an unsecured door, or was knocked down during the sharp manoeuvre, before becoming trapped beneath one of the vans.

The graphic video showed officers and nearby civilians scrambling frantically to rescue the trapped officer. Several men were seen rushing to the vehicle and lifting it physically in an attempt to free her from underneath the tyre.

As of the time of filing this report, there was no official statement from the NSCDC or the FCT Police Command clarifying the circumstances surrounding the accident.