A 35-year-old man, Felix Vhimga, has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Ojowo area of Ijebu Igbo in Ogun State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased had gone missing after visiting his brother, Sunday Robert, in the community on Monday. Vhimga was said to have bade his brother goodbye at about 9 pm.

Robert who raised the alarm about Vhimga?s whereabouts, said he could not reach him the next day.

A police source who spoke to our correspondent under conditions of anonymity, said Robert later launched a search for him.

The source said after efforts to locate his whereabouts proved abortive, Roberts rushed to the police station to make a report.

He said, ?Sunday Terkuma Robert, brother of the deceased, reported to the police that Felix visited him on November 11 and left around 9 pm. However, when Felix couldn?t be heard from the next day, Robert launched a search for him. It was after he could not locate him that he came to the station.?

The police source however revealed that the corpse of the deceased was later found near a stream in the community.

The body, according to the source, was discovered at about 7 am with a wound on the forehead close to the left eye.

?The body was discovered around 7 am on November 13 with a wound on the forehead, close to the left eye. A team of policemen inspected the scene, evacuated the corpse, and deposited it at the Alayangbe Private Morgue for autopsy.?

The case was said to have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Ijebu Igbo.

?Investigation is ongoing,? the source added.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, could not be reached as calls made to her telephone were not responded to. A text message sent to her had yet to be replied as of the time this report was filed.

PUNCH Metro reported that a three-man armed gang shot two people dead in the early hours of Monday, while two others sustained bullet injuries in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Odutola, in a statement released on Monday, explained that the incident occurred at about 12:30 am in the parking lot of Diamond Dumplings, GRA, Abeokuta.

She stated that three armed men in an unregistered black Toyota Hilux confronted the occupants of a black Mercedes Benz GLE 350 with a DLA licence plate, demanding the car keys. (The PUNCH)

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