Fear gripped residents of Close 9, Victoria Garden City, Ajah, weekend, following the discovery of the lifeless body of a 50-year-old woman in her apartment.
The deceased, identified as Mabel Okafor, was discovered to have been stabbed in the stomach by unknown persons in her apartment on House J68B.
Late Okafor, according to a resident who gave his name simply as Okunola, was found in the pool of her blood by a man that claimed to have heard voices from the building, consequent upon which police were invited.
He said: “Everyone suspects her private guard. This is because immediately the incident happened, the guard was nowhere to be found. Her phone was also missing. She lived alone.”
Lagos State Police command spokesman, Dolapo Badmus, confirmed the incident, adding “at about 12a.m., upon information received at Ajah Police Division that one Mabel Mang Okafor, 50, was found dead in her room at House J68B, Close 9, VGC, Ajah, a team of detectives attached to the division visited, examined and photographed the scene. “The team discovered that the deceased was stabbed in the stomach by unknown person(s).
The corpse has been deposited at a mortuary for autopsy. Meanwhile, effort is on to arrest the perpetrators of the act. The case is under discreet investigation.”