Hoodlums suspected to be phone snatchers have reportedly killed a 40-year-old father of three identified as Umar Muhammad Ahmad in Kano.
WITHIN NIGERIA assembled that a staff of the National Commission for Museum and Monument, Kaduna, Late Umar Muhammad was strolling home on Saturday night, July 3, when the assailants waylaid him under the ongoing Kwari Market Flyover.
It was also learnt that hoodlums overpowered him, stabbed him to death with an object believed to be a knife and made away with his phone.
An undisclosed source told newsmen that “Late Umar Ahmad slumped at the spot gasping for breath, blood oozing from the wounded part of his body, while the suspected thieves disappeared into thin air along with the snatched phone.”
Umar was rushed to Kofar Wambai Police station to lodge the case and later taken to Abdullahi Wase Specialists Hospital where he was confirmed dead.
He was buried on Sunday July 4, in Kano. He is survived by a wife and three children.