Pregnant woman found HANGING on tree

 

Shock gripped the residents along Uke/Ideani road in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Tuesday, after sighting the lifeless body of a pregnant lady hanging on a cashew tree near the road

Although the circumstances that led to the de.ath of the pregnant lady are still sketchy, residents said the deceased might have either committed su!cide or been murd3red on Monday night.

When Punch correspondent visited the scene on Tuesday, the lifeless body had been evacuated by police operatives from the Ogidi Police Division and deposited in the mortuary.

However, residents and passersby, in twos and threes, were sighted analysing the possible cause of the incident.

A resident who identified himself as Ogbanna Uche, who spoke to our correspondent, said no one could identify the deceased before police operatives took away the body.

Uche said, “I own a shop along the road. We woke up this morning to see the lifeless body hanging on the cashew tree along the road. We could not immediately identify the deceased due to the way the face was placed.

“The incident might have happened late in the night because, as of the time people left for their various homes, there was no such incident.

It is either a suspected murder or a case of suicide.”

Another resident, identified simply as Chinwe, said the nature of the incident indicated either a su!cide or a murd3r.

“An incident like this is strange in this area. That is why people were shocked to see this. No one was able to identify the deceased before the police came to evacuate the corpse,” Chinwe said.

When contacted, the spokesman for the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the commissioner of police had ordered a thorough investigation into the incident.

Ikenga added that the police command was working with residents in the area to unravel the perpetrators of the suspected murder.