Nigeria: Body of Kidnapped Eight-Year-Old Girl Found in Jalingo

22 February 2013

Jalingo — Eight year old daughter of a staff officer with the Taraba State Ministry of Agriculture, has been killed by suspected ritualists and her decapitated body dumped in an uncompleted building at Angwa Aisha Nana in Turaki Ward of Jalingo.

Khadijat Hassan, the only daughter of Mallam Hassan Sariti, was said to have been kidnapped Friday afternoon when she and her younger brothers went to a mosque in the area for prayers.

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