Detectives at State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, have detained a middle aged man (names withheld) who allegedly murdered his wife in Oshodi area of Lagos.

Eyewitnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria that a Police patrol team had, on Monday, rescued the man from being lynched for allegedly killing his wife.

Witnesses said that the suspect was caught on Balogun Street, Oshodi, on his way to dispose the wife’s body.

Apparently suspecting foul play, some youths stopped the suspect and insisted on ascertaining the content of the smelling drum on his head.

“The youths were shocked to find that it contained human parts, which made them to beat up the suspect and strip him naked until a Police patrol team came to the scene and rescued him,’’ an eyewitness said.

SP Chike Oti, Police spokesman in Lagos State, who confirmed the incident to NAN on Wednesday, said the suspect had been moved from Akinpelu Police Station to State CID for further investigation.

Oti said that the Divisional Police Officer in Akinpelu area told him that “the couple was married in 2016 and that the marriage had been childless.”

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