Tragedy struck in Egbeda, Lagos when a woman, identified as Ronke Bewaji Shonde, was allegedly beaten to death by her husband. The suspect is on the run.
Ronke, according to sources, was resident, with her husband, Lekan Shonde, and two children, at 5, Tiemo Crescent, off Awori Street, Ile-Epo Alhaji, Egbeda where the incident reportedly occurred.
The couple, it was learnt, fought on Friday morning during which noise was heard from their flat.
Their nanny was said to have reported for work at about 7am but could not enter the apartment because it was locked. She then peeped through the window and saw the kids crying, trying to wake their mother.
A neighbour, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, said that they heard noise from the building but didn’t envisage it was something as serious as death, until the nanny raised the alarm. The door to the couple’s flat was said to have been forced open and the woman’s corpse found with blood stains on her head.
Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus, who confirmed the alleged killing, said the incident was reported by one Mrs Tiemo E.B at Idimu Division, saying one of her tenants appeared to have been killed. Badmus said the suspect couldn’t be traced since the incident occurred while his phones had been switched off.
According to her, efforts were on to apprehend him, even as the case had been transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, for investigation.
( Vanguard)
