An 11-year-old Almajiri from a Qur’anic school at Kofar Wambai area of Bauchi metropolis, was brained out by unidentified persons Sunday.
Residents of the area that someone called two pupils, lured them to a corner where the boys head was smashed with a stone.
It was the second boy who escaped that narrated what happened to them.
Confirming the incident, the Bauchi State Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said that a good Samaritan reported the incident to the police.
“Police received a distress call from a good Samaritan that an unknown person had used a stone to break the skull of the Almajiri pupil,” .he said
“The two Qur’anic school pupils, Muhammad Yunusa -11 years and Aminu Yusuf -12 years old were deceived by unknown persons who used that stone to break the skull of Yunusa and ran to unknown destination.”
The police eventuall got there and found Yunus lying in the pool of his blood.
“They (police) took him to the Bauchi Specialist Hospital, Bauchi, where a medical doctor certified him dead,” Wakil said.
He explained that the state Commissioner of Police, Sylvester Abiodun Alabi, had directed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of “A” Division to act on the case with immediate effect.