By Nimake Earland
Unknown persons suspected to be ritualists have killed 11-year-old Almajiri by smashing his skull and removing his brain at the Kofar Wambai area of Bauchi metropolis.

Residents of the area, it was gathered, disclosed that someone called two pupils, in the area telling them that he wanted to give them something and subsequently lured them to where the 11-year-old Almajiri’s head was smashed with a stone.

According to the residents, who pleaded not to be named, it was the other boy who escaped, who they said was in shock, narrated what happened to them, adding that they then went to the scene where they saw the remains of the dead boy.

They added that they promptly informed the police of the sad development.

Confirming the incident, the Bauchi State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, informed that a good Samaritan reported the incident to the police.

According to the police spokesman, a Superintendent of Police (SP), “Police received a distress call from a good Samaritan that an unknown person has used a stone and broke the skull of the Almajiri pupils.

“The two Qur’anic school pupils Muhammad Yunusa 11 years and Aminu Yusuf 12 years old were deceived by unknown persons who used that stone to break the skull of Yunusa and ran to an unknown destination.”

The PPRO informed that upon the receipt of the distress call, police personnel immediately went to the scene of the crime, where they met Yunus lying in a pool of his blood.

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According to Wakil, “They (police) took him to the Bauchi Specialist Hospital, Bauchi, where a medical doctor certified his death.”

He explained that the state Commissioner of Police, Sylvester Abiodun Alabi, had directed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of “A” Division to act on the case with immediate effect.

He added that CP Alabi further directed that no stone must be left unturned in arresting the perpetrators of the dastardly act in order this bring them to book.

The PPRO then advised parents and guardians to always monitor the movement of their children and wards, adding that, “they should not allow them to answer call from strangers in the name of giving them something.”