On a day Maryam Sanda, a woman who stabbed her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, dead with broken bottle was sentenced to death by hanging, another woman, this time a 19-year-old, has reportedly murdered her husband, also allegedly stabbing him dead, but with a knife.
Rabi Shamsudden, a full-time housewife in Danjanku Tasha village, Malumfashi LGA in Katsina State, was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing her husband, Shamsudden Salisu, 25, with a knife.
Public Relations Officer of the Katsina State Police Command, Mr. Gambo Isah, confirmed that Rabi stabbed her husband with a knife at about 4a.m. on Monday.
The Police PRO told journalists that neighbours were attracted to the scene of the crime by the agonising screams by the deceased, who was crying for help.
Isah said first responders rushed to the house in a jiffy but found the front door firmly locked and they had to scaled the fence to gain access. They found the victim sprawling in a pool of his own blood, clutching his stomach.
“Some people went over the walls into the residence and met the deceased crawling out of his room with knife wound on his stomach,” the police spokesman said, adding that eyewitnesses informed that they saw the wife standing with a blood-stained knife.
Isah said though the victim was promptly taken to the Malumfashi hospital, he died on the way and was confirmed dead on arrival by medical personnel at the health facility.
The police spokesman told journalists that the suspect is was taken to custody even as investigation into the crime commenced.