A nine-man gang of serial ritualists known as “Karangiya” who specialises in dismembering their victims’ body parts have been arrested by the Borno State
Briefing newsmen on Friday in Maiduguri, Abdu Umar, the Commissioner of Police explained that the suspects were apprehended on 16th December 2022 by the Command.
He added that there was another case where a woman was killed and thrown into the river and her body parts were removed. He explained that at about 19:45hrs, one Mohammed Bukar, an 18-year-old from Shuwari area in Maiduguri, reported at Jere Division that on December 16, 2022, he along with his friend went to collect his phone from where he was charging it and they sighted a group of youths who called themselves members of ‘Karangiya group,’ armed with sticks and cutlasses coming towards their direction.
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