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.
Child marriage is common in Nigeria and
especially in the mainly Muslim North.
Assistant police superintendent Musa Magaji Majia
said yesterday that the teenage suspect was cooperating with police and
probably would be charged with culpable homicide.
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