Showing posts with label Groom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Groom. Show all posts

Friday, 11 April 2014

Child Bride Forced into Marriage Kills Four Including Groom

The police have said that a child bride forced into marriage in Kano State prepared a poisoned meal that has killed her groom and three of his friends.

According to AFP, the police quoted 14-year-old Wasila Umaru as saying she used rat poison in the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love. The couple was married last week.

The 35-year-old groom had invited a dozen friends to celebrate at his village 100 kilometres from Kano, the state capital, over the weekend.

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

6 Friends of Groom Die From Drug Overdose at Wedding

Tijani Usman (26) may have been regretting while he decided to get married as his wedding ceremony at Niabawa Quarters, Kano, Northwest Nigeria turned sorrowful when six of his friends in the spirit of jubilation drugged themselves to death.

Tijani who wedded Hafsat Ibrahim aged 18 is now a sad man in Police custody as he is being questioned over the death of his friends who took to taking dangerous drugs while others were eating and drinking during the reception.

According a source who spoke to P.M.NEWS Correspondent on phone, the dead were aged between 19 and 25, “it was, indeed, a tragic incident. While other people were enjoying themselves with food and soft drinks during the reception; little did we know that the six young men who were close friends to Tijani locked themselves in a room and were busy sniffing themselves to death.

The six young men popped in wild jubilation over their friends wedding as they took over-dose of illicit drugs in the spirit of celebration and eventually died in the process.