The Police Command in Rivers State has said the corpses of the victims of the hotel murders have not been claimed by their families.
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, stated this on Wednesday while addressing agitated groups at the command’s headquarters, Moscow road in Port Harcourt.
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The CP said up till now, no one has come to claim the corpses of the murdered victims who were all kept in the mortuaries.
He explained that another serial killer was arrested on Wednesday morning by men of the Rumuokoro police command, adding that the Rumuokoro Police DPO who led the arrest at about 2.00 am on Wednesday morning got a distress call from Nsirim Hotel at Rumuokoro when the victim was about being strangled with a towel.
The CP said that the culprit, a middle-aged man, who took her to the hotel tried strangling her while she was sleeping, adding that her screaming attracted the hoteliers who in turn alerted the men of Rumuokoro police station who came and forced their way into the room and rescued the girl.
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Stressing that he has interrogated the suspect and he is awaiting trial, the police boss said the public misquoted him by alleging that he tagged the women killed in the hotels as prostitutes.
He advised women not to follow unknown men to hotels or unknown places, adding that he suspects the serial killers to be members of cult groups.
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