There was a reported panic as residents a Bayelsa community ran in different directions while operators of business outfits closed shop and fled after a young man stabbed his lover to death in a hotel room and fled.
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An 18-year-old girl identified as Miss Faith Pius, has been stabbed by her 26-year-old lover in a hotel room located at Biogbolo area of Yenagoa in Bayelsa state.
PM News reported that the man took to his heels when the cry of the victim attracted the attention of other guests in the hotel who came to her rescue.
One of the guests said that the suspect escaped when other guests and residents in the neighbourhood rushed to the scene.
While speaking to a correspondent, a source who pleaded anonymity, said the incident happened on Friday night, adding that the young girl was rushed to a private clinic where she was treated and the wounds stitched.
“But she developed complications on Saturday and she died on Sunday morning,’’ the source said.
The state Police commissioner, Amba Asuquo, who confirmed the incident, said it was first considered as a case of assault occasioned by harm.
“Initially, it was treated purely as a case of assault occasioned by harm but now that the girl has died, we are now treating a case of murder against one suspect.
“We are in the process of ensuring that the suspect is arrested because after committing the crime he ran away. I know some people are associating it to ritual killing but we cannot conclude,” he said.
Youths of Biogbolo community took to the streets to protest the death of the girl from knife cuts allegedly inflicted on her by her lover boy.
The youths were said to have attacked shops and vandalised vehicles reportedly owned by the kinsmen of the lover boy along some streets in the area.
It took the intervention of detachments of riot policemen to disperse the aggrieved youths.