Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- The police in Imo State have uncovered a privately owned mortuary in Umuhu, a community in Ngor Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of the state.

The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Aboki Danjuma, disclosed this on Saturday when a joint team of security and government officials visited the facility.

PREMIUM TIMES obtained a video clip of the visit to the facility.

Speaking to reporters during the visit, Mr Danjuma said the police uncovered the illegal mortuary after a tip-off.

"When we visited the place, we saw scattered corpses, mutilated corpses, in this environment. What we have seen, the corpses that we discovered are more than one hundred. And the owner of the mortuary is on the run," he said.

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