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Skulls discovery: Oyo Police arrests 7 persons
 
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Mon, 24 Mar 2014   ||   Nigeria,
 

No fewer than seven people have been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in connection with the discovery of skulls, skeletons and other human parts in Ibadan.

These included two people found in the building and five security personnel working in a nearby company.

The Command's Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police Bisi Ilobanafor said in Ibadan on Sunday that the State Criminal Investigation Department had begun investigation into the discovery.

She explained that a group of 100 area boys had invaded the Toll gate behind state Urban Mass Transit Yard located at Soka in search of two missing cyclists where they discovered an uncompleted building where two women and five women were found chained and totally unkept.

She added that decayed corpses and skeletons were also found in nearby bush while one Abideen Akanmu who claimed to have been employed by one Gbadamosi, now at large was arrested in the building.

She said those arrested were being charged with murder and unlawful possession of fire arms while the destitute rescued from the building were said to have been taken to hospital for treatment .

Corpses found were also deposited at the morgue.  Items recovered at the building were 3 Dane Guns,  3 Single barrel guns, 1 Bow , 16 Arrows,  22 Cutlasses,  40 Live Cartridges, 7 Table Knives, 1 Axe, 2 Iron Files and 1 Phone.

 

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