A middle aged man (name withheld), on Wednesday in Kaduna slaughtered four of his children and attempted to kill himself.
Neighbours said that the man had quarrelled with his wife throughout the night, forcing her to leave the house located on Ahmadu Bello Way in Kawo area of Kaduna metropolis.
Thereafter, the man allegedly locked the entrance to the house and used a knife to slaughter the four children aged between one to six years.
One of his children, who was not in the house at the time, alerted the ward head of the area, when he found the door to the residence locked from inside.
When the neighbours and some police officers went into the house, the children were already dead while their father was still alive but in critical condition.
Kaduna State Police Command Public Relation Officer, Zubairu Abubakar, said that the man and the children have been conveyed to St Gerard’s General Hospital in Kakuri, Kaduna.
He said that the police had commenced full investigation into the matter.
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