Police in Edo State have discovered a den of ritualists with 20 mummified bodies.
The bodies comprising 15 males, three females and two children were found in a building in Benin City, the state capital.
Three male suspects, Chimaobi Okoewu, Oko Samuel and Gideon Sunday, were arrested on the scene.
Other suspects fled.
Police said there were intensive efforts to apprehend the fleeing suspects.
The command’s spokesperson, Jennifer Iwegbu called the building where the bodies were found a “ritual shrine”.
She said: “Operatives of the Edo State Police Command on August 17, 2022 unravelled a suspected ritual shrine.
“Following credible information at the command’s disposal that some bodies were discovered in a building along Asoro Slope, off Ekenhuan Road, Uzebu Quarters, Benin City, operatives of the Command immediately swung into action and mobilised to the scene.”
Iwegbu also quoted Edo Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, as directing the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the state’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to carry out a discreet investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the discovered bodies.
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