A man identified as Esosa Imaseun has been accused of killing his wife, Chinwedu Nnadozie in Benin City, Edo State.
According to reports, the man allegedly assaulted the mother of three and inflicted injuries on her following a misunderstanding between them at Oza street in Ogbelaka area of the Sokponba road axis of the state capital.
Chinwendu was said to have been rushed to the hospital where the doctor diagnosed that she had internal bleeding as a result of the beating.
Speaking, the father of the deceased Everistus Ndanozie said he was called that his son-in-law, Esosa Imaseun had beaten his daughter and left with serious injuries.
“They said he took her to the hospital where a doctor was said to have carried out some tests on her, and the result showed that she has Internal bleeding”, he said.
He said, she later died at the hospital before he could reach her, adding that he was not able to see her corpse as Imaseun had taken her body to undisclosed mortuary alone.
“I went to his house, they said he had absconded”, the bereaved father said.
He said he had been calling the son-in-law to come and show him the mortuary where his daughter’s corpse was deposited, but he failed to show up.
-9News Nigeria.
