A woman has bathed her husband with substance suspected to be acid
Mrs Becky odion, 29 bathed her husband Mr Odion with acid around 9 pm on Sunday 14, November 2021.
The incident happened at idemudia street, off omomoh road, St. Saviour, Benin city, Edo state.
According to Standard Gazette, the couple has been married for six years with a child.
The couple had had domestic squabbles, but this particular one took a different turn.
Standard Gazette also learnt that the woman had reported her husband to the police but the police played a peaceful move.
The extended Families were planning on resolving the marriage squabble before the woman run of patient and attack her husband with acid.
Residents who has seen Odion said his condition is critical and his chances of survival are very slim.
Standard Gazette correspondence, Festus Alekhe who visited the scene learned that the Mrs Becky, a petty trader escape after attacking her husband with acid.
A n eyewitness said he was trying to have his dinner when he heard noise From the neighborhood, I came out only to find Mr Odion on the floor not talking again.
Another witness said, I saw the woman rushing through the backside of the house through the tarred road and greeted me while moving fast.
I never knew she has bathed her husband with acid, And she is lucky we didn’t find her. The entire body of the man including his eyes were bathed with the harmful substance.
The container used in carrying the substance was still in the floor when our journalist visited the scene.
The police were not informed at the time of the report.
Standard Gazette