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A man was strangled, put in a rice sack and dumped beside a canal at Oyingbo area of Lagos State. According to Punch, the yet-to-be-identified body was found at the Jebba bus stop.
It was gathered that the sack was initially thought to contain rubbish, until a policeman, attached to a commercial bank in the area, checked it and found the corpse.
A resident, who gave his name as Saheed Ijadun, told the newspaper that the deceased, was tied on the neck with electric cables, while his hands and legs were also tied.
He said: “I believe the deceased did not live around the area. He was killed by hoodlums and dumped around the canal. The policeman was the one who raised the alarm.
“Some said the man was abducted from another area, killed and then dumped by the canal. When the sack was opened, I saw that he wore a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. There were also electric cables tied around his body.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident, saying: “The police are working assiduously to unravel the case. Operatives from the Denton division already have a clue they are working on. We are optimistic that we will arrest the suspects in no distant time.”