Jummai Hassan

A 13-year-old girl has been arrested in northeast Nigeria for ritual-linked killings of 51 people, including her father, police said Friday July 27, 2001.

Jummai Hassan, a pupil at an army college, was arrested on July 17 in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State over the disappearance of a two-year-old boy, Ibro Joseph, Borno State Police Commissioner Bello Uba Ringim told a radio station monitored here.

The police chief said that under interrogation the girl had confessed to killing 50 other people.

"During investigations, she confessed to being a member of a cult based in Lagos and that she has killed 51 people, including her father, since she was initiated seven years ago," he said.

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Written by Korey Sifuentes

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Original Written: July 30, 2001

Updated: January 30, 2002