4 Year Old Girl Found Dead In A Shrine Behind Her House In Lagos

On Wednesday, a four-year-old girl, Faridat Sulyman, was found dead in a shrine at the back of her parents’ apartment.

The victim was reportedly recovered in a pool of blood at about 8pm on Tuesday with a deep cut on her throat.

According to newsmen  the girl and her two siblings – Fawaz, 11, and Roqeebat, 9 – had gone to a summer school in the neighbourhood at about 2pm while their mother went to a market to buy foodstuffs.

From the school, they reportedly went to an Arabic school. After closing at about 7pm, they went to observe prayer in a mosque and subsequently went to their mother’s friend’s shop around the school to wait for her.

Faridat, who was playing around the shop, disappeared shortly before the mother arrived to take them home.

They were said to be searching for her when the mother, Bunmi Sulyman, stumbled on her body at the shrine at the back of their apartment.

It was gathered that the parents and eight neighbours had been picked up by the police for interrogation.

Bunmi, who spoke with PUNCH Metro at the Sabo Police Station, said she suspected that an elderly woman she had earlier sighted killed her daughter.