Tension has gripped residents of Odigbo town in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State following the shocking discovery of three headless corpses floating in a river along the Osogbo/Ore Road on Wednesday.

The gory sight, which has thrown the community into panic, was first reported by a resident identified as Sileola, who alleged that the victims may have been gruesomely murdered by suspected kidnappers and dumped in the river.

“No one in our community has been able to identify the bodies,” Sileola told reporters. “It’s terrifying because we don’t know who they are, and as of now, no one has been declared missing here. It’s like they were brought from somewhere else.”

Confirming the development,  the spokesperson of the Ondo State Police Command, SP Olusola Ayanlade, said the matter was reported to the Ore Division of the command, prompting an immediate response.

“The Divisional Police Officer led a team of detectives to the scene where the bodies were recovered and taken to the morgue at the General Hospital,” Ayanlade stated. “Investigations are currently ongoing.”

He revealed that while the victims remain unidentified, preliminary suspicion is that they may have been swept down the river from another location. No case of a missing person has been reported in the area so far.

According to Ayanlade, the Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Wilfred Afolabi, has already ordered community leaders to assist law enforcement by working to establish the identities of the deceased.

Meanwhile, the grim discovery has sparked renewed calls for heightened security patrols in and around the Ore axis, a notorious flashpoint for criminal activities.

Residents are urging the authorities to intensify surveillance efforts and unravel the mystery behind the chilling find to prevent a recurrence.

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China has announced a sharp increase in tariffs on US imports, raising the rate from 34 percent to 84 percent, in response to new American trade measures that came into effect on Wednesday.

The decision, confirmed by China’s finance ministry, will take effect from 12:01 p.m. on Thursday. It follows the imposition of sweeping new US tariffs under President Donald Trump, including a hefty 104 percent duty on certain Chinese goods.

“The tariff escalation against China by the United States simply piles mistakes on top of mistakes and severely infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests,” the ministry said in a strongly worded statement, warning of “firm and forceful” countermeasures.

Beijing has long opposed the increasing use of tariffs as a tool in trade disputes, and accused Washington of undermining the multilateral rules-based global trading system.

In a related move, China’s commerce ministry also announced it would blacklist six American artificial intelligence companies, including Shield AI Inc. and Sierra Nevada Corporation. The companies were accused of either supplying arms to Taiwan or collaborating with the island on military technology.