Not less than three mortuary attendants in the Obingwa council area in Abia state on Monday, March 31, escaped lynching by irate youths over the missing testicle of a man deposited in the facility where they worked.
Vanguard reports that a family who had deposited their son’s remains at the facility had gone to retrieve him for burial when one of their daughters insisted that the corpse be undressed for observation before they left the mortuary.
Following the request, the corpse, which was already dressed inside the coffin, was undressed, and the testicle was found missing. The situation allegedly angered youths of the surrounding communities who had accompanied the family to the mortuary.
Eyewitnesses say the attendants attempted to flee the scene but were apprehended by the irate youths.
” We don’t know that this mortuary is involved in such evil business; people have been suspecting him. It is an abomination in Igbo land to sever the body part of a dead person. Now, we have seen what he has done and why his business is flourishing. He was operating his mortuary business in that abandoned filling station. He and his attendants will answer for their crimes.”
The state police command is yet to comment on this development.