By Ovie Okpare
There was pandemonium on New Year Day as a man reportedly hunting to kill his wife reportedly butchered his mother-in-law to death around the Arubaye area of Warri, the commercial nerve centre of Delta State.
The man whose name was yet-to-be ascertained at the time of filing this report, NIGER DELTA TODAY learnt, was having issues with his wife and reportedly stormed the mother-in-law’s residence where he committed act.
Hours of after the father of two killed the mother-in-law, he allegedly drank a substance believed to be poison and died as a result
The deceased mother-in-law whose identity was not also ascertained at the time of filing this report was not in support of the marriage between her daughter and her killer.
Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred few hours into the New Year (2020).
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The now deceased killer who met the absence of his wife was learnt to have inflicted cutlass cuts on the mother-in-law and ensure that she died before fleeing from the scene of the incident
However, the daughter whose identity could not also be ascertained was said to have taken to her heels on seeing the husband armed with cutlass.
An eyewitness narrated, “She ran away. But her mother could not run because she had pains on one of her legs. This man faced the poor woman and cut her severally until she died.
“The neighbours all ran away. They said they were afraid. But the man later took poison and died this morning near Island Clinic. He wore a green native and canvass. But the body has been removed.”
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Several police sources at the ‘B’ Division at Okumagba Avenue in Warri confirmed the incident to NIGER DELTA TODAY, saying the two corpses have been evacuated by the police.
One of the senior police officers at the station said both corpses have been deposited at the morgue of the Central Hospital, Warri.
When contacted, the State Police Commissioner, Mr Adeyinka Adeleke, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
“It’s true but the man has also killed himself. We are investigating the incident”, the Delta Police Commissioner added.
