Four Year Old Girl Found Dead In Shrine Behind Her House In Lagos

 

A Four years old girl named Faridat Sulyman, was found dead in a shrine at the back of her parents’ apartment on Wednesday.

The victim was seen in a pool of blood at about 8 pm on Tuesday with a deep cut on her throat.

PUNCH Metro reported that the girl and her two siblings  Fawaz, 11, and Roqeebat, 9, had gone to a summer school in the neighborhood at about 2 pm while their mother went to a market to buy foodstuffs.
From the school, they reportedly went to an Arabic school. After closing at about 7 pm, they went to observe prayer in a mosque and subsequently went to their mother’s friend’s shop around the school to wait for her.
Faridat, who was playing around the shop, disappeared shortly before the mother arrived to take them home.
They were said to be searching for her when the mother, Bunmi Sulyman, stumbled on her body at the shrine at the back of their apartment.
It was gathered that the parents and eight neighbors had been picked up by the police for interrogation.
Bunmi, who spoke with PUNCH Metro at the Sabo Police Station, said she suspected that an elderly woman she had earlier sighted killed her daughter.
                                                               She said:

Bunmi said although the owner of the shrine was late, his child, Lekan, worshipped there every year, adding that he usually used dogs to perform rituals at the shrine.
She also said:

The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who confirmed the incident during a press briefing at the Police Officers’ Mess, Ikeja, on Tuesday, said he had visited “the Ogun shrine.”

He said;