Residents of Jos, the Plateau state capital were thrown into state of awe at the weekend, when a mysterious fire allegedly gutted the corpse and coffin of a dead woman who was taken to the Zaria Road graveyard in Jos North local government area for burial, Friday afternoon.

Stunned residents who trooped to the cemetery up to yesterday to catch a glimpse of the coffin in which the corpse of the deceased was devastated, confirmed to our correspondent in the Tin City that the dead body was burnt to ashes.

Although none of the relations of the deceased was found or seen at the graveyard to confirm the incident, our correspondent gathered that some relations of the woman who went for the burial rites sustained varying degrees of injuries from the fire, and as a result took to their heels and left the graveyard.
The identity of the deceased was not known up to press time yesterday, but our correspondent gathered that the deceased hailed from Benue state.
Also, while some eyewitnesses said that the corpse of the dead woman was taken to the cemetery from Rukuba junction in Jos, others said the journey of the deceased started from Gada Biyu area of the city.

A source close to the deceased’s residence disclosed to our correspondent yesterday that when the woman died her relations initially contemplated taking her corpse to her home town in Benue state for burial, but because she was married to a native of Plateau state, the husband insisted that she must be buried in Jos.

Although another source at the Zaria Road cemetery told our correspondent yesterday that it was not the deceased’s corpse that was gutted but a suspected female member of a gang involved in rituals, who went there to remove some body parts from a buried corpse on Friday that was consumed instantly by fire, most spectators at scene of the incident said it was a corpse that was taken for burial that busted into flames, while her relatives fled the area.

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I stay in Jos so i can confirm that this really happened, so my question is this: Is it true that Benue women cannot be buried elsewhere but in their state?

You stay in Jos and you didn't watch the news where the guard at the cemetry insisted that he set the fire to ward of snakes that were disturbing him and also to clear out some areas to create space for more graves as that place is already filled

Please post verifiable news and not speculations. It baffles me that people believe rubbish