78 Year-old Man Slits Own Throat In Kano

78 years old Hassan Ciroma met his painful end on Monday when he reportedly slit his own throat at an abattoir in Kano City.

Eyewitnesses said that the septuagenarian was earlier sighted at the blacksmithing section of the market where he was said to have purchased a butchery knife.

“We mistook him as one of the numerous butchers plying their trade, but we were shocked soon as he turned the same knife against himself,” said an eyewitness.

He added that the man's grotesque cry of agony triggered pandemonium among the people in the market, most of whom did not have the stomach to watch the bizarre scene.

However, Vanguard reports that the Police are viewing the incident from a different perspective.

Kano State Police Command's spokesman, ASP Magaji Musa Majia told Vanguard ;

: “We rushed to the scene and met the septuagenarian in his pool of blood, rushed him to the nearest medical facility where he gave up the ghost.

“We are working on two leads and the likely outcome of our investigation would certainly reveal whether it is suicide or otherwise.”

He added that the command had deposited the remains of the deceased at the hospital for autopsy.