The Lagos State Police Command has arrested seven persons working as mortuary and cemetery attendants at the St. Raphael’s Devine Mercy Specialist Hospital Mortuary in Ikorodu, Lagos state over a missing corpse.
Parading the suspects before newsmen on Friday November 23rd, the state commissioner of police, Edgal Imohimi, said one Athony Lawani, lodged a complain to the police that the body of his sister, 51 year old Mary Ehinlaiye which was deposited at the morgue was nowhere to be found. He had gone to the mortuary to collect his sister's body for burial but the attendant's could not present the body to him.
