Be careful what you (don't) wish for
During protests against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, several demonstrators have been killed instead by military brutality, in what Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, termed an unfortunate shooting incident
.
An unnamed witness told BBC News that shortly before 19:00 local time soldiers "pulled up…and they started firing directly" at peaceful protesters. "They were firing and they were advancing straight at us. It was chaos. Somebody got hit straight beside me and he died on the spot. "It was pandemonium and they kept on shooting and shooting at us. It lasted for about an hour-and-a-half and the soldiers were actually taking up the dead bodies."
None of this sounds much like an unfortunate shooting incident
, which gives the air of a minor, spontaneous infraction. Instead, it sounds more like a calculated, callous, and brutal massacre. Language can be used so creatively, can't it?