Woman Kills Her Husband After Five Days Of Wedding

An 18-year-old woman who according to media reports had been forced to get married to a man she didn’t love, has alleged to have killed her husband in Kano.

According to Vanguard, the woman, Rahma Hussaini and the deceased, 24-year-old Tijjani Basiru got married on Friday, February 20 2015.

The couple’s neighbours told newsmen that their union was a forced marriage.

Speaking on the incident, Isa Alhassan said, “we were alarmed by a frightening scream of a subdued man in need of rescue and we rushed to the scene only to discover that the man of the house was in the pool of his blood… neighbours mobilized and took the groom to the hospital but doctors confirmed him dead on arrival.”

Policeman Magaji Musa Majia, who confirmed the incident said one Rahma Hussaini of Darmunawa quarters stabbed her husband, one Tijjani M Basiru on his stomach with a knife and was rushed to AKTH. Meanwhile, Hussaini has been taken into police custody.