Disaster struck in Ibeshe Titun range of Ikorodu, Lagos, yesterday, as a man, his wife and their child, were killed in their apartment by obscure men. Nes man gathered that the relatives had their heads bashed in with a pounding stone. Their child was writing the ongoing Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE.
Residents nonetheless, asserted that the demonstration could have been completed by individuals from a feared cultist known as Badooo, inferable from the way the relatives were murdered.
No one could tell the correct time the aggressors struck, as residents had obviously gone to bed. Yet, they were altogether tossed into confusion at noon yesterday, after an educator and a few classmates of the SS3 understudy got to discover why he didn't come to write the day's paper.
The entryway was bolted from inside, while the window was left opened.
A few thumps on the entryway and additionally calls put through to their telephones were welcomed with silence.
One of the inquisitive classmates was said to have peeped through the window, just to find the family of three in a pool of blood.
The guests raised the alarm that alarmed residents, who constrained the entryway open and found each of the three stone dead. Policemen from Ipakodo Division, who were reached, arrived the scene and took the corpses to the Ikorodu General Hospital mortuary.
Residents express dread Some inhabitants, who addressed News media on telephone, communicated fear over the well being of their lives, uncovering that such assaults on residents had turned out to be overbearing. One of them stated: "This is not the first run through a thing like this is occurring.
This is the handiwork of Badoo young men, since they utilize same strategies for their operation. "Now and again, they would rape their casualties before crushing their heads with a pounding stone. At different circumstances, they would not rape but rather simply kill. They don't spare relative at whatever point they strike.
"Simply a month ago, they raged a church at Mosafejo in Agbowa town here in Ikorodu and killed a mother and her three grandchildren. Another man and his two kids were likewise influenced in that same zone.
They complete every one of their monstrosities here in Ikorodu." Contacted, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole, affirmed the occurrence.
He stated: "When policemen, who got the trouble call, got to the scene, the corpses of a man, his wife and their child were found in a pool of blood. Investigation is in progress."
