From: Paul Osuyi, Asaba

Four persons have been remanded at Agbor prison facility in connection with the alleged mass murder of a family of five at Idumuje-Ugboko in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State on December 25, 2016.

Magistrate Court in Iselle-Uku, the council’s headquarters, remanded the suspects and referred the case file to the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), for advice.

The suspects, Jibunoh Isibor Samuel, Chukwunonso Kaifikwu, Sunday Dibia and Okwuchi Uche were charged for conspiracy and aiding and abetting the principal suspects to commit the murder of the deceased five.

But the principal suspects, one Anumonye Ewerem and Uche Ngozi aka Aboy, are still on the run.

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It would be recalled that unknown persons suspected to be assassins had struck on Christmas Day and snuffed lives out of Madam Comfort Ogo Ubani (80) and four of her children at the living room of their apartment in the agrarian community of Idumuje-Ugboko.

The names of other victims were given as Nonso Ubani, Agiliga Azamokwu, Onyeisi Azamokwu and Chidinma Azamokwu. They reportedly died in a mysterious fire.

But community sources said the fire was a make-believe incident, as indications emerged that the victims were earlier killed and later assembled in the living room of their apartment before being set ablaze.

One of the female children was allegedly violated as there were blood stains in her underwear and her thighs even after the fire incident.

The source added that everything in the apartment where the mystery fire supposedly occurred remained intact except an old cushion chair and a plastic chair that burnt in the living room, alleging that the incident was carefully masterminded by the assailants.