HUSBAND KILLS WIFE

MAN THROWS WIFE INTO PIT

Ogun  Police Command on Tuesday in Abeokuta paraded a suspect  for allegedly killing his wife  by throwing her into a pit  latrine  over a misunderstanding.

The State Commissioner of  Police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, told newsmen that the 46-year-old unemployed man committed the act  on October 7  at Agbado area of the state, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

“The Agbado Division had a distress call that a man had  pushed his wife into a deep pit;  we quickly rushed to the scene where the victim was met dead in the pit.

“The suspect was immediately apprehended and we are still interrogating him;  he will be charged to court as soon as we are done with our investigations,” Okoye said.

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