Two aged women in their 70s
have been gruesomely murdered by assailants in Ikare-Akoko in Akoko North East
area of Ondo State.
The incident which happened
in Okeegbe quarters of the ancient town has reportedly thrown the town into
mourning going by the nature of the killing which was suspected to have been
carried out by ritualists.
The
vital organs of the deceased, Mrs Medinat Ala, 72, such as her breast,
virginal, womb and oesophagus, were removed by her killers.
Also the second victim, a
tenant of Mrs Ala who was simply identified as Onyame, from Kogi State later
died in the hospital after she was said to have been hit with a pestle.
According to one of the
neighbours of the deceased, the suspected ritualists attacked Onyame with the
same pestle that was used in the killing of Mrs Ala when she raised the alarm
when her landlady was being attacked.
The neighbour who preferred
anonymity stated that the killers had disguised to be customers who had come to
buy household items from the deceased who sold wares in front of her house.
Confirming the incident,
the Divisional Police Officer for Ikare Akoko, Abayomi Fidelis who led his men
to the scene of the incident disclosed that a suspected male tenant in the
house, where the incident happened, Moses Olaniyi had been arrested.
Also, the Police Public
Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, Femi Joseph who confirmed the incident,
stated that the command had begun an investigation into the matter and an
arrest has been made.
Joseph also stated that the
corpses had been deposited at the state specialist hospital mortuary in Ikare
Akoko.
Meanwhile, youths in the
community who decried the incessant killings of such nature within the
community in recent times have been protesting against the latest development.
They also vowed that the
perpetrators of the dastardly act would be nabbed as the phenomenon is totally
strange in the town.
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