mysteriously killed in Osun state while trying to exhume a buried
corpse.
According to reports gathered on the strange incident which took place
in Ilobu community, located in the Irepodun Local Govenrment Area of
Osun state, the supposed ritualist was found dead, half buried in a
grave from which he had tried to cut off the head of an aged woman who
had been buried there.
A source in the community who spoke to newsmen revealed that the
corpse had been buried for over 5 years and that the man found dead
did not operate alone.
"This particular corpse was buried five years ago and the suspected
ritualist attended the burial in Ilobu. There are indications that he
did not dig the grave alone.
What we discovered is that he may have been attempting to cut off the
head of the corpse when something suddenly hooked him as he managed to
force half of his body into the grave to cut off the head.
He got hooked and died on the spot, a development which possibly
compelled other ritualists to run away from the scene so that they may
not be affected by the mysterious thing that killed their colleague",
the source said.
Speaking on how the residents of Ilobu got to know about the incident,
the source explained that the half-buried body of the suspected
ritualist was discovered by a hawker in the early hours of the day.
"A woman who was hawking ogi (a local corn meal) early in the morning
of Wednesday spotted the torso of the suspect sticking out of the
grave and raised the alarm.His corpse was discovered around 6.30am and
his head was covered in mud. The residents here alerted the police
division in Ilobu and they later came to evacuate the body and put it
in their van before taking him away," he said.
The remains of the deceased were said to have been deposited at the
Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH) mortuary in
Osogbo ,the state capital.
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