The Enugu State Police Command has begun an investigation into the alleged killing of a one-year – and-five-month-old baby by her mother.
Public Relations Officer of the Command, Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement in Enugu on Sunday that the incident happened on May 30.
Mr. Amaraizu noted that the incident took place at Amankanu village in Amuri community within the state’s Nkanu West Local Government Area.
He said the woman identified as one Ijeoma Nnaji, 30, allegedly killed her daughter, identified as one Chiemerie Nnaji for a reason yet to be established.
“But it was assembled that the child’s body was now deposited in the morgue of Agbani General Hospital.
“The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Sulaiman Balarabe, has conducted a full-scale investigation into the incident that began at the command’s State Department of Criminal Investigations.
“The suspect is so far assisting in the investigation,” the spokesman for police said.
