Tears as family buries three Anambra siblings found dead in deep freezer
The remains of the three siblings killed by yet-to-be-identified assailants in Nnewichi, Nnewi North LGA of Anambra State were laid to rest on Saturday amid wailings by family and community members.
They were interred in their family compound in Uga in the Aguata Local Government Area of the state, leaving the community in an unusually quiet and mournful mood.
The three siblings of the Ejezie’s family – Chikaima, 9, Chimziterem, 8, and Chimdirim, the only son, 5, were reportedly killed on February 1 and their lifeless bodies stuffed in a deep freezer.
In a homily during a requiem mass in honour of the trio at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, the Archbishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, Cardinal Ebere Okpalaeke, recalled the biblical story of Cain and Abel.
Mr Okpalaeke said that killing had been there since the creation of man, adding that the children, who were murdered in their early years, had become martyrs.
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