Fear of the unknown on Friday gripped residents of Asaba, Delta state following the alleged ritual murder of a 32-year-old pregnant woman identified as Nkechi Nwanze.
The Corpse of the pregnant woman, DAILY POST gathered, was discovered on Benin/Asaba Expressway by motorists who raised the alarm that attracted residents of the areas to the scene in the early hours of Friday.
DSP Andrew Aniamaka, the police spokesman in the state who confirmed the incident to DAILY POST in Asaba said, “We discovered her private part mutilated, her ears cut off, it is a case of ritual murder, the police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the act, no arrest has been made yet.”
But relations of the victim, one of them, Jane Chukwudi spoke to DAILY POST. He said, ” We have been battling the problem of her pregnancy, and in anger she left the house in the early hours that she was going to Benin to see a cousin, a medical Doctor, only for a call to us that she had been murdered in cold blood, the assailants removed vital parts of her body.”
It was gathered that the victim had allegedly been facing nightmare challenges, a situation she told one of her sisters that it might portend danger for her, but was treated with a pinch of salt before the incident.
As at the time of filling this report, residents of the area have fled their homes for fear of the unknown, while many others were seen discussing the incidents.
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