The Katsina State Police Command says it has arrested a 23 year-old man, Abubakar Musa, who slashed the throat of his girl-friend, Aisha Dikkom.
\nThe police also said it has arrested a 15-year-old house wife, Daushiya Abdullahi, for allegedly killing her husband and another person through food poison.
\nThe State Commissioner of Police, Mr Benson Gwana, made this known to newsmen on Saturday in Katsina while parading the suspects.
\nGwana said the suspect confessed committing the crime because the girl was planning to jilt him and marry another person.
\nAccording to him, the suspect confessed to the police that he cut the throat of the victim with intent to kill her.
\n\u201cThe accused took his girl-friend on a motorbike to a bush in Kurfi Local Government Area from Charanchi Local Government Area where they were residing on December 21, 2017.
\nHe used a sharp knife to cut her throat at Tamowa Village in Kurfi LGA.
\n\u201cWhen the suspect cut the throat of the lady, he left her in a pool of blood.
\n\u201cThe suspect left the victim believing that she was dead but\u00a0the victim was rescued by a good Samaritan who took her to General Hospital in Kurfi.
\n\u201cThe victim, who is responding to treatment, informed the police about the incident,\u201d he said.
\nGwana said that police traced the accused and arrested him at Sabon Gari area of Charachi LGA.
\nIn another development, the police chief said that the female suspect, who resides at Dan-Nayaki Village in Bakori LGA, allegedly poisoned the rice and beans she cooked for her husband, Saminu Usman.
\nGwana said that Usman and his brother, died after eating the food, while one other person that ate the poisoned food survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Katsina State Police Command says it has arrested a 23 year-old man, Abubakar Musa, who slashed the throat of his girl-friend, Aisha Dikkom. The police also said it has arrested a 15-year-old house wife, Daushiya Abdullahi, for allegedly killing her husband and another person through food poison. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Benson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}