Three siblings, a boy and two girls, have been killed by yet-to-be identified persons in Nnewichi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The siblings’ ages, nine, seven and five, were suspected to have been killed by the assailants, who swooped on them in their house, then stuffed their lifeless bodies inside a deep freezer in their apartment.
Vanguard reports that the eldest of the siblings, a girl, Chikaima Ejezie, nine years, the second daughter, Chimziterem Dominica, seven years and the only son, Chimdilim Ejezie, five years were left in their apartment by their mother, Mrs. Chikazor Ejezie, said to be a lecturer and nurse, to participate in an examination on the fateful day.
Mrs. Ejezie, according to Vanguard source, was said to have returned from the examination and found her apartment widely opened, quite unusual and unlike her children, if they were not indoors or in the absence of their parents.
Mrs. Ejezie was said to be worried on why her apartment would be left so open with none of her children around and as a result started looking for them in and outside the apartment.
Her curiosity, according to Vanguard source, to know why her children were not in the house and her apartment left wild open, led her to go to the deep freezer to know if they were hungry and didn’t eat their food and probably went out to buy something, but on opening the deep freezer, she met her greatest shock, the bodies of her children squeezed inside the deep freezer.
Confirming the incident to newsmen in Nnewi, father of the deceased siblings, Mr. Udobi Ejezie, who is based in Irrua, a town in Esan Central Local Government Area in Edo State, said he was informed of the incident by his wife, who called to tell him, which made him rushed back to Nnewichi.
According to Mr. Ejezie, “My wife told me after searching for the kids by herself and a search party, without success, and in despair, the deep freezer was opened and behold, the dead bodies of the kids were found there.”
According to the father of the deceased siblings, “In the house, a bungalow where we live, we have two other tenants and the landlord, the kids were eating when the assailants stormed the house in the afternoon because we found food in plates and it was likely they were forced to abandon the food.”
Vanguard reports that the corpses of the kids had been deposited at a morgue and the incident reported at Central Police Station, Nnewi.
