What started off as an argument between a youth and a taxi driver spiraled into a full-blown standoff as opportunists with weapons started chasing commuters and vendors.
“It looked like a tribal fight,” Philip Counsel, who was on the scene at that time, told this newsroom.
“I saw men with weapons such as bush knives rushing towards the crowd, chasing the innocent members of the public.
“Mothers who were selling food, children, young women and men ran for their lives.”