In what might be termed ‘stranger than fiction,’ a woman on Saturday
gave birth to aheadless baby at a mission centre in Sekona community,
near Ede, Osun State.
It took the intervention of police to control the crowd that had
thronged the mission center to catch a glimpse of the mysterious baby.
A section of the crowd initially suspected foul play when they thought
that the head of the baby was severed for ritual purpose but when the
police took the baby to
government
hospital Ede for investigation, the crowd that followed up on the
matter, were later enlightened following a thorough check on the baby by
a doctor, thatthe birth was a rare case of deformity.
According to police public relation
officer in Osun, Folasade Odoro, the dead baby had since been returned to the mother for burial.