Suspected ritualists have reportedly killed a 3-year-old girl in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, removing certain body parts such as her eyes and v*gina.
It was gathered that the girl,
Asiya Zakari Ya’u, had been declared missing for two days before her mutilated
body was found dumped in Ningi township.
Village sources, said the girl’s parents, who were residents of Sabuwar Denawa, were
informed by some Almajiri boys from a Qur’anic school in the area.
The police in Ningi were said
to have gotten wind of the incident through one Malam Saleh, who reported the
discovery of the girl’s lifeless body near a graveyard.
Confirming the incident, the
spokesman of the Bauchi State Police Command, Ahmed Wakili, disclosed in a
phone interview with our reporter on Saturday that a medical doctor at the
hospital confirmed the death of the girl, after which the body was released to
the parents for burial.
He added that the result of the
postmortem is being awaited to determine the exact cause of death
Wakili Ahmed said further that
the Commissioner of Police, Auwal Musa Mohammed, has directed a thorough
investigation into the case, in order to arrest the perpetrators of the
dastardly act.
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