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Police arrest woman for allegedly killing her daughter
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old woman, Ijeoma Nnaji for allegedly killing her daughter.
The spokeman of the police command, Ebere Amaraizu, stated this in a statement on Saturday, adding that the suspect, a native of Amankanu Amuri in the Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, was alleged to have killed her a year and five months old daughter, Chiemerie Nnaji, on Thursday, May 30, 2019, for unknown reasons.
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Amaraizu further added that the state Commissioner of Police, Sulaiman Balarabe, has directed operatives of the state Criminal Investigations Department to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter to unravel the reason for her action.
He said: “A woman identified as one Ijeoma Nnaji was said to have killed her daughter identified as Chiemerie Nnaji of about one year and five months over a yet-to-be established reasons. It was however gathered that the body of the dead child has been deposited at Agbani morgue.’’
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