The corpse of a missing two-year-old boy was found near a transformer in Abraka town in Delta State.

According to reports, the corpse of the minor was found during a search party conducted by his parents who had earlier alerted the public of their missing child on Friday evening.

The father of the deceased minor, Johnson Oghenevo, who spoke to journalists in the area, stated that the child was kidnapped by an unknown person while he was playing outside their room at night, Daily Post reports.

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He said that all efforts to locate the kidnapper had proved abortive.

“The child was playing outside our room during night fall and as at the time we wanted to bath him he was nowhere to be found,we raised the alarm and reported to the police that same evening and we all started looking for our two-year-old child until the following day which is Saturday and found him dead very close to a transformer on Umono Street around Abraka old road,” he said.

The police commissioner in the state, Mustafa Muhammad, who confirmed that the minor was found dead near a transformer, disclosed that investigation was ongoing.

He said,

“The police have taken a fresh statement from the parents based on the conflicting statement they gave earlier, the police have discovered the body of the child with blood stains and his genital organ removed, the police will bring the culprits to book, no arrest made yet.”