A bizarre scenario has claimed the life of a man who realized his friends had betrayed him and decided to take the law in his own hands.
Police have identified a middle aged man who upon realising he had been poisoned went nuts on a revenge spree, killing three people in the process.
He was said to have gone after those he suspected poisoned him. The incident happened on Monday in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
Information gathered from a source revealed that the man identified as Onana Osua was said to have left the hospital a sad man, after he was told by the hospital management that he had five days to live due to the poisoning he allegedly suffered. Feeling angry and betrayed, the man went home, picked his gun and subsequently went after those he suspected to have poisoned him. Vanguard reports that the man was a chairman of a motor park in Uromi.
The deceased, who was said to have killed the wife of one of his targets when he got to their residence, fled to the neighbouring Ubiaja community where he shot an on coming police patrol van. The police patrol van responded to the attack and gunned the deceased down in self-defence.
The Edo State Police spokesman, DSP Abiodun Osifo, however, confirmed three persons dead while others are in critical condition in the hospital. He explained that Osua shot at a police team before the police fired back.
“It was after the incident our men discovered that he went on a killing spree and shot at the police before he met his death,” he said.