Security operatives have apprehended a five suspected ritualists traveling in a bus with fresh human heads in Ebonyi State.
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Five suspected ritualists, including a lady were on Wednesday caught with 4 fresh human heads, when a commercial vehicle along the boundary between Ebonyi and Enugu States was intercepted.
They were nabbed by security men during a stop and search operation conducted by the security operatives who must have been on their trail after the beheading of the victims.
The location were the victims were beheaded has not been ascertained.
According to Vanguard, reliable source at the scene of the arrest observed that the suspects may have taken off from Enugu heading towards Cross River state through Ebonyi state border. It was discovered that when the suspects made attempt to runaway from the scene after the fresh human heads were discovered in a bag in their possession, the said security operatives shot them on their legs to restrain them from running away.
It was further gathered that men of the Department State Security are already at the scene of the incident. The human heads were displayed on the highway before the unsuspecting public and motorists who had crowded the scene discussing the incident. The security operatives later whisked the suspects away to an undisclosed destination. As at the time of this report, the Ebonyi state police command and state DSS command were yet to react to the development.