..Recovers Severed Human Parts
Hyacinth Chinweuba
The Bariga Police Station in Lagos has arrested a suspected rapist after it was alerted of the crime.
The station working on a tipoff from a woman (Name withheld) that her eight years old daughter (Name withheld) was raped by their neighbour one Anudumoapo Aiodun responded efficiently to arrest the suspect.
A team of detectives from the Family Support Unit promptly arrested the suspect, according to police information.
The victim was taken to General Hospital for medical treatment and forensic examination. Investigation is ongoing and, the suspect will be charged to Court, the Police said.
Also, the Okoko Police Station having received an information that a sack suspected to contain human corpse was sighted along Martins Street Igbo Elerin dispatched its Homicide detectives to the scene. The sack with blood stains was said to contain the remains of a Male victim of about 40years old. The severed body parts found includes, head, left hand, back side lap was slashed off and taken away. The corpse was removed and deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.
The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to take over the investigation in order the unravel the circumstances surrounding the gruesome murder and apprehend those behind the heinous crime.
He called on members of the Public with useful information about the incident to contact the Police.
In a different development, on 12th June, 2019 at about 10.30am, Police received a distress call that cooking gas exploded in a building at Ademola Adefiye area, Ajelogo, Mile-12. The incident occurred when one Chinedu was cooking. Consequently, the building was gutted by fire. A combined effort of the Police, Firefighters and emergency agencies successfully put off the fire and rescued fifteen persons from the building with various degree of injuries.
The victims were rushed to Gbagada General Hospital and are now in stable conditions. Investigation is in progress to ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the incident, as well as the value of the properties destroyed.