TRAGEDY struck, yesterday, at 12 Bonny Street, Umuahia, Abia
State, as a 25 year-old man set himself and the family house ablaze.
According to Vanguard, the man, Tochukwu Ogbonna, alias Mbe
(meaning tortoise), had attacked his mother with a machete, inflicting severe
injuries on her.
The woman is said to be lying
critically ill at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia.
Trouble started when the young man
was said to have approached his mother on an undisclosed issue.
He was said to have also attacked
their domestic dogs, which he cut into pieces.
The police were called in to arrest the deceased,
but he was said to have escaped, set their house ablaze and threw himself into
the fire.
Some residents of the area said he was
a drunk, while others described him as suffering a mental problem.
The state Police Command confirmed
the incident.
