65-year-old woman murdered in Osun, eye plucked

By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo

A 65-year-old woman, Tunmise Oluyemi, has been murdered by a yet to be identified assailants in Ilesa, Osun State.

The State Police Command, said the corpse of the woman was found on her farm with one of her eyes plucked.

The family of the deceased was said to have launched a search for her when she got missing last weekend before her corpse was found on her farm on Monday.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Yemisi Opalola in a statement in Osogbo on Tuesday, said that the daughter of the deceased reported the discovery of her mother’s corpse to the police.

Opalola said: “At about 1.00pm on Monday, one Dare Oluyemi of Odundun Area Ilesa reported that her mother, Oluyemi Tunmise, 65, who the family had been searching for since Saturday, had been found dead.

“She said her mother was found dead with one of her eyes removed by yet to be identified assailants on her farm at Fadahunsi Area of Ilesa, at about 11:30am on Monday.”

The PPRO said the police had visited the scene of the crime and had taken photographs.

She added that the children of the deceased refused the police to take the corpse to the mortuary saying they wish to bury their mother immediately.