Wife kills husband with rat poison – Police
The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a teenage bride who allegedly poisoned her husband two weeks after their wedding.
Daily Trust reports that the incident happened at Yakasai Quarters of Kano metropolis on Thursday last week.
Late Umar Sani was suspected to have been killed by rat poison served in his meal by his wife, Sadiya Umar, on Wednesday but died a day later at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.
The spokesman of the command, DSP Magaji Musa Majiya, disclosed in a telephone interview with our reporter that the suspect was arrested on Monday, two days after she had evaded arrested.
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Majiya said “Three relations of the late husband reported the incident to Kofar Wambai Police Station in Kano metropolis on Monday’’, adding that ‘’after the police received the report on the incident, they went to the deceased’s matrimonial home at Yakasai quarters to effect arrest, but found that the bride had run away until yesterday when she was eventually arrested.”
The PPRO said the woman had already been handed to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for interrogation while the groom has been buried.
Source: Daily Trust
