Another suicide mission by a man in Nigeria

By Ugochukwu Alaribe
Aba—Tragedy struck in Hospital Road, Aba, Abia
State, Monday, as a man identified as Uba
Okoroafor stabbed his sister in-law to death and
committed suicide thereafter.

Vanguard gathered that Okoroafor stabbed his
sister-in-law, whose name was simply given as
Oyidiya, because she stopped him from going out
because of the state of his health.
When he realised the gravity of his action, he
also stabbed himself in the chest and fell off from
the building to the ground where he died.
Police sources told Vanguard that the DPO of
Ndiegoro Police Division, Superintendent of Police
Crescent Mamah, where the incident took place,
deployed his men who conveyed Oyidiya to a
nearby hospital, where she was confirmed dead
by doctors.
When Vanguard visited the area, family members
were in a mourning mood, wailing over the fate
that befell them.
Spokesman of Abia State Police Command, DSP
Ezekiel Onyeke, confirmed the incident, saying
investigations into the incident had began