Woman Stabbed to Death By Her Mother- In-Law

A mother-in-law, Mrs Kareen Opara, has
gone underground after allegedly
stabbing her son's wife, Esther Oluchi, to
death in Anguwa Baba area of Nassarawa
State. But the police have launched a hot
chase to fish her out.
The women, who lives in the same
neighbourhood with his son, Chinedu and the
deceased wife, hailed from Imo State. She was
alleged to have been at loggerheads for
sometime over a picture taken by the deceased at
the wedding of her (Kareen's) daughter, last
December.
Trouble was said to have broken out between the
late Oluchi and her mother-in-law when it was
reported to her that Kareen (her mother-in-law)
was caught at a herbalist's home with one of her
photographs.In a bid to retrieve the picture,
Oluchi approached Kareen and pleaded with her
to return the said picture to her but she ignored
all pleas and rather took offence for the
effrontery of her daughter-in-law.
Angered by what she saw as "confrontation" by
her son's wife, Mrs Kareen confronted her son
Chinedu and warned him to call his wife to order
or risk being punished with her.
Unknown to the son that the mother had not
forgiven his wife for daring to ask her to return
her picture, Chinedu tried to mediate in the spat
to appease his mother and the wife.
Family sources said a peace meeting summoned
by Chinedu to reconcile his mother with the late
wife ended in violence, as the mother, who was
armed with a sharp machete, went for her
daughter-in-law, who was carrying one of her
two daughters on her back and stabbed her in
the tummy. The machete pierced through her
abdomen and she bled to death.