by Akan Ido

The eighteen decomposed bodies evacuated from the Ezu river on the border town of Amansea, between Enugu and Anambra states, will be subjected to an autopsy beginning today.

The exercise will be witnessed by officials of the Anambra and Enugu state governments alongside officials of their respective state police commands.

Following varying figures being bandied around, the Anambra state police commissioner, Bala Nassarawa, confirmed eighteen bodies, adding that all the dead bodies were males.

While addressing Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and other senior police officers in the state yesterday, Nassarawa reportedly said three bodies had been selected for autopsy because the other 15 had “become too bad.”

“We have also discovered that there were no gun injuries or matchet cuts on their bodies as being speculated and the dead bodies were not up to 30 or 50 as rumored,” he said.

According to him, the Commissioner of Police in charge of medicals, the state Commissioner for Health and pathologists from the two states would be involved in carrying out the autopsy.