A middle-aged man, simply identified as Mike, has reportedly butchered four children of his neighbour in Okha II community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria.
It was alleged that on Wednesday, Mike hacked two of the children, Favour Oliver (3 years old) and Destiny Oliver (nine months) to death with a machete.
Not satisfied, Mike was said to have attacked two other children of the family, Gift, 7, and Goodness, 5, severing their nose and wrist respectively before fleeing the scene of the alleged crime.
The assailant, who lives in the same building with the Oliver family, was said to have had a long-standing quarrel with his neighbours before the incident.
The father of the children, who hails from Enugu State in eastern Nigeria, was said to have been away from home when the incident occurred, while his wife, Chinyere, reportedly fled for her life during the attack.
Medical doctors at the Accident and Emergency Ward of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), where Gift and Goodness were later rushed for medical attention, described their condition as “stable but critical.”
Though the incident was reported at the New Etete Police Station, the Edo State Police Command spokesman, Noble Uwoh, said he was not aware of the incident when contacted.
In another incident, a two-year old boy was on Wednesday found dead in a pool of stagnant water in Evboutubu, Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
Circumstances leading to the death of the child could not be ascertained at press time, but reports had it that the child’s mother, Abies Enyanyor, had left him in her friend’s care last Monday.
The child was later found dead in the pool of water.
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