Last night, TrendyNews broke the story of a house located in the Ekenhuan neighborhood in the suburbs of Benin City, with dead and dried human bodies.
Now, credible information has it that, three suspected ritualists have been arrested by the Nigerian police in connection with the twenty corpses.
Those arrested are Chimaobi Okoewe and Oko Samuel – from Afikpo in Ebonyi State and Gideon Sunday – from Akwa Ibom. They were allegedly in their hideout around Asoro Slope on Upper Ekewan Road in Benin City, Edo State.
A shrine in the house.
Three of the twenty corpses recovered are females, 15 males and two children.
The corpses had dried up at the time they were found.
According to the report, the corpses are meant for ritual purposes.
Edo state commissioner of police, CP Abutu Yaro, who commended the police team that unravelled the crime assured that a wider investigation would be opened into the incident.
As at the time of this report, all the corpses remain unidentified.
