SUSPECTED ritualists have killed an 11-year-old Almajiri pupil simply identified as Yunus in Bauchi State.
The spokesman of the state police command, Ahmad Wakil, who confirmed the incident in a statement yesterday, said the assailants smashed the victim’s skull and removed the brain along Kofar Wambai area in the Bauchi metropolis.
He said: “Police received a distress call from a good Samaritan that unknown persons have used a stone to break the skull of an Almajiri pupil.
“Two Quranic school pupils – Muhd Yunusa (11) and Aminu Yusuf (12) – were deceived by unknown persons who used a stone to break the skull of Yunus and escaped to an unknown destination.
“Immediately the police received the call, they went to the scene of the incident and met Yunus lying in a pool of blood. They took him to the specialist Hospital in Bauchi for treatment where the doctor on duty certified him dead.
”The State Commissioner of Police, Sylvester Abiodun Alabi, has directed the Divisional Police Officer, A Division, to act with immediate effect and bring the perpetrators of this dastardly act to book.
He, however, advised parents to monitor the movement of their children and not to allow them to answer calls from strangers in the name of giving them something.”
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