Two public primary school students were on Monday morning hacked to death by one suspected to be mentally sick.
The names of the victims, Mubarak Kalesowo and Sunday Obituyi while the mentally deranged person was identified as Lekan Adebisi.
The unfortunate incident happened at 11:15am during lunch break. They (pupils) were on the field playing. The man (suspect) just emerged from the bush and hacked two of them to death and immediately he did it, he ran away.
The pupils met their untimely death when Adebisi walked into school compound and inflict machete cut on them while they were playing with their mates on the school field, during break time.
They were aged four years each.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the mentally sick man fled the school compound said to be without security gate having committed the heinous act.
This development had thrown the entire Agodo community into confusion as a search was launched after the sick man.
When contacted, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the ugly incident.
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, also said that the police led by the Divisional Police Officer, Abigi, have been on the trail of the suspect and get him arrested
“Those who know him (suspect) said he is a madman and also an indigene of that place. But we are not relying on that. We are on his trail, we want to get him arrested.
“It is only the medical expert that would confirm whether he is a mad person or not. Our ultimate aim is to get him arrested. As I’m talking to you now, the Area Commander and the DPO Abigi are at the scene. We have set the machinery in motion to get him arrested,” the PPRO added.
