Benue Police Command on Monday recovered the corpse of a yet-to-be identified middle-aged woman in Nyiman area of Makurdi.
They also said that, contrary to some social media claims, the late woman wasn’t a victim of rape.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene, told us in Makurdi that the body was recovered in the earlier hours of Monday.
Anene explained that the cause of her death still remained unknown until an autopsy was conducted.
She dismissed speculations on the social media that the victim was raped to death, adding that the body had already been deposited at a mortuary.
It was reported that the deceased was naked, which gave rise to speculation that she was raped to death.
