The remains of two girls, Nimisire and Darasimi, have been recovered from a well at Abaku Estate, Ilesa Garage, Osogbo, Osun State and deposited at a mortuary.
Residents of the community said the mother of the eight-year-old and five-year-old girls threw them into the well after complaining of “the hardship in Nigeria”.
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Neighbours said the 45-year-old woman was recently deported from the Sultanate of Oman in the Middle East where she had been living.
The spokesman of the Osun State Fire Service, Mr Ibrahim Adekunle, said the well had 24 rings and that it was filled with water which made it difficult to rescue the children alive.
He said a police team eventually hired some well diggers who entered the well and brought out the corpses.
The mother of the children who is under arrest told newsmen that when she was living abroad she felt that some people used the glory of her children and that her frustration in Nigeria compounded her situation as she could not feed them.
