A man identified as Friday Anyim, from Umuenem,Ezinesi-Oduma
in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State , has been arrested for
allegedly killing of his step-mother,Bennedeth
Anyim, with an axe during her
intervention to quell a fight that erupted between two belligerent siblings.
The,
suspect, Friday Anyim was said to have engaged the elder sister,Abigail Anyim,
in an argument over the sale of a water tank to enable him (Friday) raise money
for the purchase of a motorcycle, popularly known as Okada for commercial
purpose.
It
was gathered that the suspect,a son to one of the three wives of his father,
Anyim Samuel, had, in a bid to have his way,picked an axe, apparently to deal a
devastating injury on the sister before the deceased rushed to intervene and
was hit by the flying axe.
The
attack left the deceased sprawling on the floor just as the suspect took to his
heels.
Enugu
State Police Command Public Relations Officer,PPRO,Mr. Ebere Amaraizu,
confirmed the incident in a statement, adding that the deceased’s husband who
was in the middle of a meeting in a nearby house, raced home on
hearing the news only for him to meet the wife in a pool of blood.
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