Residents discover 5 children’s corpses in Jigawa

There was pandemonium in Gwaram town, headquarters of Gwaram Local
Government Area of Jigawa State as residents woke up to find the
corpses of five children on a street.
Reports from the area revealed that the five dead children were
between 10 and 13 years old and from two families. The corpses were
found on the street by some people from a mosque after their morning
prayers.
Contacted, the Jigawa Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Abdu
Jinjiri, confirmed the incident, saying: "We received reports from
ourGwaram division that five corpses were discovered on the street of
Gwaramthis morning. Our men rushed to the scene and picked the corpses
to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, AKTH, for postmortem and as I'm
talking to you, there is no report on what led to their death."
Jinjiri said the kids wereAlmajirai,Islamic pupils, who were found by
theresidents around 5 a.m by the roadside near some residential
houses, adding that the police as of now are treating the case as that
of natural death but would brief the press on the outcome of the test
from the hospital.
Police arrest three
He confirmed that the police had arrested three people for questioning
and gave the names of the deceased as Basiru Malam Inusa,12;
MansurMalam Inusa, 12; Rabi'u Abubakar, 13; Buhari Abubakar,10 and
Bashir Inusa,11.
Meanwhile, a resident of the area who prefers anonymity told our
reporter:"Their death might not be unconnected with something they ate
in the night since all of them werealmajirairesiding in one of the
houses at the old Gwaram town."