Confusion over corpse found under high tension cables in Rivers

There was confusion at Agip Junction in Port Harcourt on Thursday when residents of the area suddenly woke up to see a lifeless body of a middle-aged woman.
The body of the woman was directly under a high tension cable, raising suspicions that she could have been electrocuted.

While some residents of the area contemplated that the woman might have been dropped by the roadside by some ritual killers, others insisted that she was a witch in form of a bird.
It was gathered that a bird had hit an electric cable and fell on the ground, by the side of an electric pole before purportedly turning into a dead person.
The incident had caused a gridlock on the ever busy Agip Junction as students, workers, artisans and motorists streamed to where the body of the woman was lying.
It was learnt that the incident, which occurred at about 5.30am, began to attract a huge crowd that spat on the lifeless body of the woman.
The woman, who was wearing a big chain suspected to be charm around her neck, was half nude when she met her death.
A teenager, who simply identified himself as Okorie from Imo State, told Southern City News that he and a student saw it when the bird hit an electric cable and fell on the ground.
According to Okorie, “I was going to the market early in the morning. As I was moving along the road with one school boy (student), we saw a bird that was flying and hit the pole and fell on the ground.
“As it fell on the ground, the school boy (student) rushed immediately to catch the bird. As he got there, the bird turned into a human being. He (student) ran away. I stay around this place (Agip Junction).”
Another resident of the area, who identified herself as Onyinyechi Nwachukwu, told our correspondent that the bird immediately turned into a woman after it was electrocuted.
“She was a witch, who was in the form of bird before it was electrocuted. The crowd gathered immediately a young man who was going to the market raised an alarm,” Nwachukwu stressed.
Another resident of the area said, “The woman could be a victim of ritual killers. But her body is lean and that is why some people are saying that she must have been electrocuted. But there is no naked wire on the ground here.”
Another report had it that the woman was beaten to death after she transformed from a bird to a woman.
However, a team of policemen drove to the place and dispersed the crowd in order to reduce the traffic jam that lasted for six hours.