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Pandemonium as mentally unstable man murders father, 9 others in Enugu

A middle aged man, Onyekachi Ugwu suspected to be a lunatic on Tuesday brutally murdered over nine persons including his father with a cutlass at Ngelefi, Ehamufu in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Ugwu who is now been trailed by the police was said to have gone to the Ngelefi farm settlement in the night, while people were asleep and hacked more than nine persons to death with his cutlass.

Following the murder of the victims, Ugwu reportedly went ahead and set his father’s house ablaze, destroying the old man’s property.

Ugwu was said to have visited other houses at the farm settlement, where he murdered the occupants, among whom is a year and a six-month-old baby.

The State Police Spokesperson, Ebere Amarizu, while confirming the incident said the police are currently investigating the matter.

Amarizu added that Ugwu was suspected to be mentally derailed.

“Search for the suspect is intensified by the combined team of the police and the Neighbourhood Watch group, who are combing bushes and hideouts in the area in order to stop further wrecking of havoc by the alleged mental suspect.

“The mother of the suspect was lucky to have escaped the incident, as she would have been counted as one of the victims,” Amarizu said.

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