A male divorcee allegedly killed the woman he married after, who was six months pregnant at the time she was strangled to death.
Thereafter, she was allegedly thrown down from a five-storey building in Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State.
The identity of the suspect and the deceased could not be ascertained as of press time.
A resident of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent that the incident took place around 10 pm on Saturday.
He said, “The suspect was said to have been ejected by the landlord of his former house following the constant beating and divorce of his first wife.
“The suspect and the deceased met at the surgical equipment section of the Onitsha Bridgehead Market.
“As the relationship blossomed, he impregnated her, but she later suffered a miscarriage under mysterious circumstances.
“The man quickly paid her bride price last December after the woman took in again.
“After he had killed the woman, he threw her corpse from the last floor of the five-storey building
“We learnt that he was evicted from where he was formerly living for beating his wife, and the same thing has happened again.”
It was gathered that the corpse of the deceased was discovered by police detectives, who stormed the scene and arrested the suspect following a tip-off.
The Divisional Police Officer of the area, Mr Rabiu Garba, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
He said the suspect had been arrested, adding that case had been transferred to the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau.
In another related more horrific story, a Nigerian man identified as Mustapha Idris, pictured above, from Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa state, has been arrested for killing his 20-year-old girlfriend, Nafisa Hashimu, who was three months pregnant for him.
According to the state police command spokesperson, Audu Jinjiri, Mustapha and Hashimu, is a divorcee.
The two lived in the same apartment at Daneji village of Jigawa before the murder.
It was gathered that the deceased recently found out she was three-months pregnant and informed him. He, however, got angry and stabbed her to death. Her body was found in a bush at the outskirts of Daneji village about 22 kilometres from Ringim town.
When interrogated, 29-year-old Mustapha said he killed his girlfriend to avoid the shame of giving birth outside wedlock.
“I’m ashamed of how the society will see us after she delivers the unborn child out of wedlock, and thus i decided to terminate her life to stay away from shame,” he said.
The police spokesperson in Jigawa, Audu Jinjiri, said the corpse of the deceased was found in her pool of blood in a bush at the outskirts of Daneji village about 22 kilometres from Ringim town.
Mr Jinjiri said a preliminary police investigation found that the late Ms Hashimu was a divorcee, adding that she was certified dead by a medical doctor and released to relatives for burial.
The suspect would be charged to court to face the wrath of the law, the police spokesperson said.