Stabbed in the Back: Modou Yandé Diop’s Agonizing Final Moments

At 11:30 p.m. on October 26, the Touba special police station was notified of a killing in the 30 Serigne Cheikh Bombali neighborhood following an altercation between Omar Dième and 22-year-old delivery worker Modou Yandé Diop. His friend O. Loum and his mother took him by taxi to Matlaboul Fawzeyni Hospital, but he was already dead when they arrived. A doctor found a knife wound to the back that had reached the heart, as well as a fractured nose. Omar Dième fled and is being actively sought; the prosecutor was notified and an investigation has been opened.