Student kills friend

*Stabs him to death over argument

Bauchi Police Command said it has arrested one Kamaluddeen Musa, a 22-year-old student of Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education, Kangere-Bauchi LGA, Bauchi State for killing his friend and a fellow student of the same school. 

Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Wakil, said: “On 28/11/2022 at about 1300hrs, information available to the command revealed that on the same date at about 0915hrs, Kamaluddeen Musa stabbed his friend, Usman Umar, aged 25 years old of the same address with a sharp knife in his stomach.

“Upon arrival at the scene, the Police detectives evacuated the victim to the Specialist Hospital Bauchi where the victim was certified dead by a medical doctor, while the suspect was immediately arrested.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that both the suspect and the victim were friends and final-year students of Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education, Kangere Bauchi LGA, Bauchi State.

“That on November 28, 2022 at about 0915hrs, a little altercation occurred between them when the deceased said the suspect went on an outing without notifying the deceased.

“That led to a physical confrontation during which the suspect’s thump finger was injured, in the process the suspect drew a small knife from his pocket and stabbed the deceased in his stomach and it was corroborated by the two eye-witnesses.”

Culled from Vanguard

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