Two Unidentified Ritualists Died Digging Up Grave To Steal Skull In Osun State, South West Nigeria!.

Two unidentified young men were found head deep in a grave in the early hours of Wednesday last week in Iiobu community in the Irepodun LGA of Osun State, after allegedly attempting to cut off the head of a corpse, buried in Tonto compound in the area. 

According to Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog, Saturday Tribune reports the suspects other accomplices fled in terror after seeing their men got stuck mysteriously in the grave. Their death has generated concern among the terrified residents of the Ilobu community. It was gathered that the victims and their partners in crime allegedly came to Tonto compound in the early hours of Wednesday with a plot to exhume the corpse of an aged woman and sever her decomposed head, allegedly for ritual purposes. Continue...

Anonymous sources at the community,  told Saturday Tribune that “this particular corpse was buried five years ago and the suspected ritualists attended the burial in Ilobu.”

He explained: “There are indications that they did not dig the grave alone. What we discovered is that they may have been attempting to cut off the head of the corpse when something suddenly hooked one as he managed to force half of his body into the grave to cut off the head.

“He got hooked and died on the spot, a development which possibly compelled other ritualists to run away from the scene so that they may not be affected by the mysterious thing that killed (their colleague).” While the other was laying dead next to the grave.

While commenting on how the residents of Ilobu got to know about the incident, since it happened in the wee hours, the source said a woman who was hawking ogi (a local corn meal) early in the morning of Wednesday spotted the torso of the suspect sticking out of the grave and raised the alarm.