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Seven children found dead in a vehicle in Lagos

Seven children have been found dead in a vehicle belonging to a woman along Badagry Expressway, behind Area K Police Command in Lagos.

A source, who spoke with our correspondent on phone, said that the children, all from the North, were returning from an Islamic school on Saturday when they went missing.

The incident was said to have occurred at Adelayo Street at Jah-Micheal along Badagry Expressway.

Four of the children are siblings from the same parents while the three others belong to another family.

According to the source, a search party found the seven children dead in a vehicle belonging to an elderly  woman identified as ‘Saliat Kazeem’. who lives alone in the area.

The woman was said to have been detained by the police.

However, the police claimed they are investigating a case of possible suffocation and not murder.

 

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