Members of the Ahoada Security Planning Advisory Committee (ASPAC), a local vigilante group, have reportedly killed three persons for attempting to mob a witch doctor caught conducting a sacrifice with remains of a three-month-old baby in Rivers State.
The Delta State-born witch doctor identified as Dr Mike India was caught while trying to bury the baby at the Edeoha community in Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday.
It was gathered that he disappeared when youths who had discovered and beat him ordered him to confess.
Arriving at his house, hundreds of pictures were discovered nailed, tied and chained, to different places.
A resident in the area, who claimed to have witnessed the incident, alleged that the vigilante group, on getting the hint of the development, attacked and killed three persons suspected to have been involved in the attack on the herbalist on the claim that he was the one who prepared charms for them.
According to the source, Mr Indian was caught burying a three-month-old baby in the middle of the night by a supposedly drunk boy returning to his house in the early hours, which drew the villagers’ attention.
However, confirming the incident, the State Police Spokesperson, SP Nnamdi Omoni, said the information he had at hand was sketchy.
