There was tension early on Wednesday in Agbowa area of
Lagos State, as a woman and her three children were hacked to death by unknown
assailants within a church premises.
The state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, while confirming the incident to newsmen on Wednesday, stated that the police in the state were on the trail of the perpetrators of the devilish act.
The murder reportedly occurred around 3:00 a.m early Wednesday, when the woman and her children had gone to the “Holy Land” part of a Cherubim and Seraphim church, situated on Mosafejo Street in Agbowa.
Angry residents of the area stormed
the church premises and rained curses on the killers of the woman and her three
children, while also calling on the police to urgently fish out the killers.
The three children died inside the
church premises, while their mother made it to the hospital, where she died
about one hour later.
It was gathered that the deceased
woman and the three children’s bodies were seen in a pool of blood by some
worshipers, who were going to church later in the morning.
A source at the community said that
“I was sleeping when someone close to the area called me on phone to inform me
about the incident, behold when we got to the scene, the children were lying
face down and they were seriously injured.”
The woman also said “I urged the
Lagos State Commissioner of Police to make everything possible to arrest
anybody behind the crime, because we don’t want the family to die in vain, and
the church had been sealed up by the police authority.”
Owoseni, while speaking with
journalists at the state police headquarters in Ikeja confirmed the incident
and assured residents of the Lagos community that the police would ensure their
safety.
The police boss said: “we got a
worrisome case during the early hours of Wednesday, at about 3am that some
hoodlums entered into an uncompleted church building at Agbowa area, and
brutally murdered three children and one person, whom we later discovered to be
their mother.
The mother was wounded and rushed to
the hospital, where she later died.”
The Lagos CP also added that, “as
soon as we got the information, policemen rushed to the scene. It is too soon
to conclude those behind the murder, and to ascertain if it was a ritual
killing or something else. We are doing everything to find and arrest the
suspect.”
The bodies of the children and their
mother has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.
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