Abdulkadir, 12, was reportedly butchered to death in Zaria by unidentified assailants.
Late Abdulkadir, a resident of Madarkaci, is believed to have passed away suddenly on Monday after being asked to pick up a phone from a nearby business charger on Sunday evening but failing to show up.
Abdulkadir’s dismembered bones were located at an unfinished structure nearby, according to his father, Aminu Saleh Muhammad.
A source stated that the father of the deceased, Aminu, suspected the killers to be ritualists, stressing, “they butchered him by removing his eyes, penis, tongue and they broke his leg, as well as cracked his skull.”
The father requested for the body from the police for burial.
The remains of the boy was buried according to Islamic rites.
DSP Muhammad Jalige, the State Police Command Public Relations Officer, while confirming the incident, said the boy was butchered to death by unknown murderers.
The PPRO said that already the police had commenced investigation in an effort to unearth and arrest the culprits to face the full wrath of the law.