A middle-aged woman identified as omowumi has been arrested in osogbo, Osun State for allegedly throwing her two daughters into a well.
According to reports, the woman who just returned from Oman told her daughters Darasimi, 8, and Nimisire, 5, to follow her to the well in the Ibuaje area of the city where she grabbed them both and threw them into the well.
One of the residents who spoke with news men said “the police have arrested the woman after the incident. The woman told the mob that she was frustrated. She is mentally unwell. She just returned from Oman.”
Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the state fire service, Ibrahim Adekunle, said efforts are being made to rescue the children out of the well.
Police spokesperson Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident, saying “the woman is suspected to be of unsound mind.”
