There was tension in Adamawa, the capital of Yola State, as suspected ritualists killed a schoolboy and removed some parts of his body.
NIGERIACRIME learnt that the lifeless body of the deceased boy was found in Rumde, a community behind Yola North Local Government Secretariat in Jimeta.
It was also gathered that the boy’s throat was sliced, while his tongue and eye were removed when he was found.
The deceased, who is of the Tsangaya Islamiyya school, would most likely have been one of those brought into Yola from a distant town for Islamic and Arabic literacy.
Residents Rumde identified the victim as a pupil of one of the Islamic schools in the locality.
It was gathered that the residents heard the victim’s cry before his death but paid no attention to it because they thought he was been dealt with a senior student of the school.
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Confirming the development, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Yahaya Nguroje said the corpse of the boy had been taken to hospital for autopsy and that investigation had commenced to track down the culprits.
He urged parents and guardians to always take full responsibility for their children’s upbringing.
Meanwhile, a 14-year-old boy, Ashfa Ibrahim, drowned in an open stream at Danzaki Village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano state.
The spokesperson of the state fire fighting department, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Kano on Tuesday.
“We received a distress call from one Ibrahim Abdullahi and we dispatched our rescue team to the scene but the victim was rescued from the stream unconscious.
“The victim was later confirmed dead by a team of medical doctors at the Gezawa General Hospital,” he added.
He said the corpse had since been handed over to the ward head of Danzaki Village, Muhammed Abdulkarim, for onward delivery to the parent of the deceased for burial.