The bodies of three of the four children who
had gone missing since Wednesday have been found in a car.
The fourth
child who was also found in the car however survived at the time of the
discovery and is receiving treatment at 44 Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna.
The survivor
and the bodies of the three dead children were found at Surajo Road in Tudun
Wada area of Kaduna on Saturday near their parents’ house in a car belonging to
a neighbor. The car had not been used for a long while.
The children
were all of the Hashimu Mai Atamfa family and were known to have gone missing
on Wednesday around 6:45 pm.
They are
Aisha Sulaiman Hashim, three and half years; Rabi’atu Aminu Hashim, four and
half years; Abubakar Sulaiman Hashim, two and half years and Hamza Aminu
Hashim, two and half years.
One of the
parents, Suleiman Hashim who narrated how the incident occurred, said when the
children were nowhere to be found around 6:45 pm on Wednesday they began
searching for them.
“My
biological mother, that is their grandmother, even went inside the compound
where they were found to check inside the Honda Civic car that was
parked and it was empty. But to our surprise on Saturday we found their bodies
inside the same car after three days. One of them Rabi’atu came out
alive. The three bodies were all naked but when they left home they had their
clothes on. This is why we suspect that they were murdered.”
Sulaiman
said the owner of the car Abdu Musawa who was aware that the children
were missing, came out on Saturday to tell the parents that the children
were found inside his car.
Suleiman
said he was confused when he saw the bodies of his children.
“Honestly, I
really don’t know what to say because the incident really shocked the whole
Hashim family. I lost two of my children Aisha and Abubakar while my
brother lost his Son Hamza,” he said.
The
spokesperson of the Kaduna Police Command, ASP Yakubu Sabo, said investigations
were on to unravel the mystery.
- Daily Trust
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