SUICIDE! 78-YEAR-OLD MAN SLIT HIS OWN THROAT IN KANO

It was a tragic end for a 78-year-old man, identified by police as Hassan Chiroma, when he slit his own throat at the city abattoir, Kano, yesterday.

The incident which sent shock waves across city dwellers, had set tongues wagging over what could have led the septuagenarian to take his life.

The eyewitness said: “We mistook him as one of the numerous butchers plying their trade, but we were shocked soon as he turned the same knife against himself.”

But the police authorities which suspected foul play over the development, has taken into custody four persons in connection with the tragic incident.

The police spokesman in Kano, ASP Magaji Musa Majia, told Vanguard on phone: “We rushed to the scene and met the septuagenarian in his pool of blood, rushed him to the nearest medical facility where he gave up the ghost.

“We are working on two leads and the likely outcome of our investigation would certainly reveal whether it is suicide or otherwise.”

The police scribe, however, pledged to keep the general public abreast of developments as soon as they unfolded.

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