OMG! Soldier suffers mental illness after returning from Boko-Haram’s war, Kills two, stabs wife, son.
A soldier has suffeted a mental illness shortly after returning from North-East where they fighting the Boko Haram insurgence. The soldier who is identified Olodi Blesses stormed the Army Engineering Company, Ede, Osun State, killed a soldier after stabbing his wife and son.
The Soldier also allegedly killed a neighbour, identified as Iya Ijesa, who sells vegetable.
The soldier, according to resident close to the Barrack, recently returned from the war front in the North-East for a course but returned to his original unit at Ede, instead of the front.
Another source, however, disclosed that the soldier suffered mental illness at the war front and It relapsed around 10 pm on Thursday, leading to his action.
According to a resident in the Barrack area, Adeoye the man stabbed his wife, son with a knife, as well as their a female neighbour.
He was said to have later stabbed another soldier simply identified as Peter Afolayan, who attempted to wrestle the knife from him.
Another resident, Bello Sheriff disclosed the military guy went haywire at night stabbing people and was eventually captured beside Alhaji Olohuntoyin house along barrack junction.
Bello said, “The incident was unfortunate, we heard that the soldier suffered mental illness and the illness relapse at night.
He was stabbing people and unfortunately, two of his victims including Iya Ijesa and a soldier died.
The soldier was eventually captured by some butchers who were returning from the market and was tied down for the military to arrest him.”
Efforts to get a reaction from the Army spokesperson, Colonel Sagir Musa proved abortive, as he did not pick his call or respond to the message sent to him.