The pregnant woman, identified as Fatimah, and her four children, who were killed on Sunday by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have been buried in Anambra State.
The woman and her children were gunned down at Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Sarki Kabiru Bakari, the leader of the Hausa Community in Orunba South of Anambra, said the corpses of the victims were recovered on Tuesday evening.
He said they decided to bury the victims in Anambra on Wednesday because plans to take them to their hometown in Adamawa for burial was cancelled as the corpses were not taken care of in the mortuary, and could not withstand the travel to the North.
Bakari said, “We have now decided to bury them in Awka Wednesday (today). The mortuary attendant did not treat the corpses, no preservation measure was done; hence we cannot travel with the corpses as they have already started decomposing. We have no other option than to take them to Awka and bury them there.”
Bakari added that the security personnel had been deployed in the area and that the Anambra State police commissioner has visited them and assured them of swinging into action.
“But after we bury the victims, we will all relocate to our hometown in the North; we are no longer safe here. The husband of the woman will also relocate back to Adamawa as soon as he has buried his family; he is working here as a security guard,” he added.
