Severed Head of Missing Nigerian Lawmaker Found in Park: Police

Severed Head of Missing Nigerian Lawmaker Found in Park: Police
Policemen keep watch at the scene at the United Nations building in Nigeria on Aug. 27, 2011. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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ONITSHA, Nigeria—Police in Nigeria have discovered the severed head of a state legislator who went missing last week in the southeastern state of Anambra, where the government accuses separatists of carrying out a spate of killings and kidnappings, police said on Sunday.

The southeast, homeland of the Igbo ethnic group, is agitating to secede from the rest of Nigeria and the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group has been leading those calls.