An unknown man in his late twenties was, at the weekend, found killed along Asa Dam Road in Ilorin, Kwara State capital with his head severed from the body.

Residents of the area where the body was found told Commu-nity Mirror that they suddenly discovered the body by the road side around 8pm on Saturday in a dark, desolate spot. It was said that some pedestri-ans who were hurrying home on the faithful day discovered the headless body with the aid of re-flections from passing vehicles and raised the alarm. However, out of fears that over-zealous security agents might subsequently descend on the in-nocent residents in the area, shops within the vicinity, homes and commercial motorcyclists whose park was located a little distance away, were said to have been forced to hurriedly close for the day. The state of fears in the area, according to sources, made the lifeless body remain at the spot till Sunday morning when policemen came to remove it.

When contacted, officers at Ad-ewole Divisional Police Headquar-ters under which jurisdiction the area falls confirmed the incident.

They said initial investigation points to a case of an accident in-volving a runaway driver and a pedestrian.

An officer at the police station who would not want to be quoted because his Divisional Police Of-ficer (DPO) was not around, told Community Mirror that police suspected the deceased might be a lunatic who ran into a moving ve-hicle on the highway.

Also, the State Police Public Re-lations Officer (PPRO),Olufemi Fa-bode (DSP) when contacted at the police headquarters in Ilorin said it must be a case of a hit-and-run driver killing a pedestrian

He confirmed that police offi-cers from the station have removed the deceased body and deposited it at the University of Ilorin Teach-ing Hospital, adding that police are still waiting for any report of a missing person, even as he en-couraged anyone whose relative is missing to make formal report and come for possible identifica-tion of the body.