Gwaram town, headquarters of Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State was thrown into pandemonium as residents woke up to find the corpses of five children on a street.
The five dead children were said to be between the ages of 10-13 years, and from two families. The corpses were found on the street by some people from a mosque after their morning prayers.
Confirming the incident, Jigawa State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Abdu Jinjiri, said: “We received reports from our Gwaram division that five corpses were discovered on the street of Gwaram this 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.”
According to Jinjiri, the kids were Almajiri Islamic pupils, who were found by the residents 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 autopsy.
Jinjiri also said the police had arrested three people for questioning and gave the names of the deceased as Basiru Malam Inusa,12; Mansur Malam Inusa, 12; Rabi’u Abubakar, 13; Buhari Abubakar,10 and Bashir Inusa,11.
May their souls rest in peace.