80-year-old man kills Ekiti co-tenant with machete, attacks neighbour
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Wednesday remanded an 80-year-old man, Lucas Ateniola, at a correctional centre in Ado-Ekiti over alleged murder and attempted murder in the state.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the police prosecutor, Inspector Caleb Leramo, had earlier told the court that Ateniola murdered one Elizabeth Nwamaka and attempted to kill 20-year-old Alice Bodunride at their residence in the Emure-Ekiti area of the state.
He told the court that Ateniola and his victims were neighbours living in the same building, adding that the octogenarian claimed that the victims threatened to kill him.
Leramo said the accused went into the rooms of the victims in the night, stabbed Elizabeth several times and dealt her machete blows until her intestines came out of her body.
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