MAN CAUGHT WITH HUMAN HEAD

A young man, who claimed to have gone to a cemetery to exhume the corpse of his son, was last week arrested by police detectives in Bauchi with the head of a male child wrapped in a cloth. The 25-year-old man, Maikudi Mohammed, according to the Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Haruna Mohammed, was arrested in Misau Local Government Area of the state. The state police image-maker noted that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, who hails from Galambi village in Bauchi Local Government, conspired with his accomplice, one Damina Mohammed, aged 26. The suspects, according to DSP Mohammed, went to a graveyard in Galambi village to exhume the head of a male child corpse to sell to a customer, now at large. The PPRO said that the suspect confessed that the child was his son, who died and was buried but that he later went back to the graveyard at night with his accomplice to exhume it. The police spokesman added that the case was under investigation after which the suspects would be charged to court for prosecution. 4 die in road accident In another development, four people reportedly lost their lives Sunday evening in a motor accident at Miya Berkete village in Toro Area of Bauchi State. It was learned that the accident occurred when an Opel Vectra, with number plates FH 277 ABC, conveying five passengers from Jos to Bauchi, brushed a motorcyclist, Jibrin Haruna. Consequently, the driver lost control of the vehicle and had a head-on collision with a Golf 3, number plates BSA 306 SC, which was coming from Bauchi with five passengers. A police patrol team attached to Toro Division visited the scene and rushed casualties to General Hospital, Toro. A police source said four female passengers were certified death on arrival by a medical doctor, while nine other occupants, including three female youth corps members, two drivers, a motorcyclist and his passenger, were referred to ATBU Teaching Hospital, Bauchi. Meanwhile, the corpses have been released to relatives for burial after post-mortem examinations.