A 78-year-old window has reportedly been murdered by suspected ritualists who harvested her body parts in Nigeria.

According to reports the deceased was declared missing by her family members last week Friday, May 29.

The son of the deceased, one Eyitope Aranilew revealed that his , mother Mrs. Aranilewa was washing clothes in front of her residence situated at the popular Moshood road, Odo-Oja area of Ikere-Ekiti before she went missing.

The friend of the deceased’s was said to have raised alarm of her disappearance after which a search team was organized.

All effort to find her was futile later in the day when her dead body was found inside a shallow flowing stream with her throat slitted and vital organs harvested.

“On that fateful day I got a distress call that my mother was missing. It was my mother’s friend, one Mrs Ojolo who lives within a short distance from her shop that raised the alarm when she did not see her in the shop.

The matter was instantly reported to the Police. It was while at the police station that information came that the corpse of Mrs Arannilewa was found at a place not far from the home.

She was slaughtered like a goat and the corpse dumped in a shallow stream flowing through the back of her home” he said

The spokesperson of the state police command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, described it as an unfortunate and mysterious one.

He said investigations have since commenced and efforts are being made to apprehend those behind the dastard act.