Anambra Police Command has arrested a middle-aged man identified as Emeka Ezimadu for allegedly killing his two children, aged mother and injuring other children with a cutlass while they slept, Oceanicnews reports.
The incidence took place on Thursday, September 17 at Okpuneze Uruagu in Nnewi North local government area of the state.
The state police command spokesperson, SP Haruna Mohammed said the suspect allegedly attacked, and killed two of his biological children, 9-year-old Ifechukwu Ezimadu, 2-year-old Ezimadu, and his 85-year-old mother, Agnes Ezimadu, with a cutlass while they were sleeping.
Haruna said the suspect also used the cutlass to injure three other children namely Nonso Ezimadu 12, Chinaemerem Ezimadu 11, and Ngozi Ezimadu 8.
According to him, “Meanwhile, police detectives visited the Scene and rushed victims to the Akwudo hospital for medical attention where the two children and the aged mother were certified dead by a medical doctor while the three other children are receiving treatment’.”
Haruna stated that the corpses have been deposited at Akwudo hospital morgue for autopsy and that the case has been transferred to State CID Awka for investigation.