Some persons suspected to be ritualists have killed a 78-year-old widow, Mrs Sabianah Aranilewa, in the Odo Oja area of Ikere Ekiti in Ekiti State.
It was gathered that the suspected ritualists abducted the septuagenarian from her house on May 29 and dumped her lifeless body in a canal beside her house after slitting her throat and allegedly draining her blood.
A son of the deceased, Mr Eyitope Aranilewa, said his mother got missing on Friday, May 29 around 6.45am while washing clothes in front of her residence on Moshood Road in Ikere-Ekiti. He said, “A search party was swiftly organised, but efforts to find her proved abortive until about 4pm when her corpse was found inside a shallow stream.“Her throat was slit and the corpse dumped in the shallow stream flowing through the back of her home.
The state Police Public Relation Officer, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, described it as unfortunate.
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