4 arrested after pregnant woman dies from abortion complications in Bauchi
Four people have been arrested by the police in Bauchi after they fell under suspicion of causing the death of a pregnant woman.
The corpse of 23-year-old Blessing Musa Abarshi was found dumped by a roadside in Guru village on the outskirts of the state.
The suspects have been named as Iliya Markus, Kefas Adamu, Ahmed D. Ahmed and Abdulrashid Bibi, the latter 2 of whom are health workers in a community clinic.
Ahmed and Bibi are said to have admitted that they were paid N10,000 and they used a drug called Eprostol 111 on the victim, who was over 4 months gone, in a bid to abort the pregnancy
The incident was confirmed via a press statement released by the Police Public Relations Officer for the
state, Haruna Mohammed.
