The Rivers State police command have arrested a man, identified as Amos Ogbo, for reportedly killing his seven months pregnant wife on Christmas day.

The woman reportedly died from internal bleeding after her husband stoned her while she was trying to escape from him.

The incident occurred around Eliozu, Obio-Akpor Local government area of Rivers State.

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An eyewitness who narrated the incident said that Ogbo who was under the influence of alcohol started beating his wife before using the stone, Daily Post reports.

“Neighbours were trying to separate them but the man refused to stop. When the woman tried to run away, the man stoned his wife and the woman fell.

“Immediately, she started losing breath. By the time they got to the hospital, she had died,” she said.

The deceased husband is a tricycle rider and has three children with his late wife.

He told newsmen at the Police Command that, “I didn’t know that the stone will kill her. When the thing happened, I was trying to carry her but she was too heavy and nobody came to help me.

“I wanted to take her to the hospital when she fell but as I tried to stand, they will slap me and hit me with things.

“By the time we eventually got to the hospital she had died. I don’t know what happened to me.

“I didn’t know what to do. I was begging my wife not to leave me.”

Spokesman of the Rivers State Police Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni who said the stone used by the man has been kept as an exhibit, added that the
suspect has been transferred to the State CID.

DSP Omoni disclosed that “The Commissioner of Police has ordered an investigation into the matter. The homicide department are on it.

“The good thing is that the man has not denied the incident but he is claiming that he doesn’t know what came over him.”