A labourer has reportedly stabbed a yet-to-be-identified businessman to death in Onitsha Main Market in Anambra State.
The shop owner had contracted the suspect of Hausa origin to help him offload goods in his warehouse located at the section of the market where they sell baking materials.
The lifeless body of the businessman was, however, discovered later lying in the pool of his blood, while the Hausa man was nowhere to be found.
Angry youths in the area, on hearing the news of the businessman’s death quickly mobilised themselves in search of the perpetrator.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that other northerners were also forced to seek refuge at the Army barrack and the Central Police Station (CPS) over fear of reprisal attack by the angry mob.
Confirming this, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said the incident “is a case of murder which happened at Bright Street, inside the main market, around 4 pm”.
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However, Tochukwu said he can’t confirm the identity of the culprit, which, according to him, is immaterial.
“Murder is murder, whoever commits it will answer for it. I don’t have any information about the identity of the suspect but will ensure that whoever’s responsible is arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law,” he said.
Meanwhile, the spokesman said police had quickly mobilised men to the scene and discovered the man in the pool of his blood and was rushed to the hospital where doctors on duty confirmed him dead.
In another news, the Divisional Police Officer, Agbor Division, CSP Idris Haruna, has led an operation to rescue two victims of robbery along Uromi junction in Agbor, Delta State.
This was confirmed in a statement by Delta State Commissioner of Police Wale Abass, signed by police public relations officer DSP Bright Edafe.
According to Edafe, “On 26th June 26, 2023, at about 1:35 am, the DPO of Agbor Division, CSP Idris Haruna, received a distress call of an ongoing armed robbery operation along Uromi Junction.
“He promptly responded and led operatives of the division to the scene where the hoodlums, on sighting the police, took to their heels and escaped into a nearby bush, abandoning one cut-to-size locally fabricated gun and one expanded cartridge.”
The victims, aged 36 and 41, were attacked on their way from the Agbor-Obia axis.