From Ogbonnaya Ndukwe, Aba
There was pandemonium resulting from a discovery by relations of a deceased young man in Abia State, that his testicles were allegedly missing in a mortuary that his remains were kept.
The situation led to the destruction of the mortuary and near lynching of its workers in Umuezibe, Obingwa area, along the Aba/Ikot Ekpene highway, where it is located.
The deceased,Chimaobi, in his twenties, was allegedly electrocuted while fiddling with high tension electricity cables in Abayi Okorator, in the same area with his corpse kept in the mortuary, pending burial.
However, things got awry, when youths from his (the deceased) community went to retrieve his corpse only to discover that his genital was missing from the body they were being shown by the attendants who thereafter, tried to escape but was apprehended.
The situation got so tensed that relations of the dead person whose body was deposited in the mortuary quickly came to remove them either for immediate burial or to other locations, as the youths insisted on destroying the facility. A witness told our correspondent that the quick intervention of the police in Eastern Ngwa, saved the mortuary attendants who were said to have been taken into custody.
A senior police source in the area, said the situation was under control, though he didn’t speak further on the issue.