Elderly couple strangled in Osun; man, 35, kills brother, self

The police in Osun State, on Sunday, said unknown assailants strangled to death  an elderly couple in Gbongan area of the state.
The spokeswoman  of the police in the state, Mrs Folashade Odoro, said  in a statement on Sunday that  their bodies  were found about 11 am at their residence in Gbongan.
Odoro said the son of the couple, Caleb Akanbi,  reported the death of his parents to the police after he found them strangled.
“When police got to the scene of the incident, Mr Reuben Akanbi, 70,  and Mrs Victoria Akanbi, 68,  who lived in an isolated house  were found dead with violent marks on them.
“The crime is suspected to have been carried out overnight and the body of the deceased couple had been removed and deposited at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital for autopsy.
“Police special detectives had, however,  been  deployed to fish out the killers,  ” she said.  
Odoro also confirmed the discovery of the body of  a  35-year-old man, Joseph Abifarin,  after he allegedly killed his elder brother with a heavy stick in Iresi.
She said the incident happened on Tuesday about 10 a.m.
“One Abifarin Opeyemi reported that her father, one Ayo Abifarin, 40,  of  Aros Compound, was murdered by his younger brother.
“The younger brother used a heavy stick to hit him on his head.
“When the incident happened, people tried to save Abifarin by rushing him to the hospital but he died on the way.
“When the police went to arrest the culprit, he was, however, found dead in the pool of his own blood  in his compound.
“The dead bodies of the siblings had been moved by the police and deposited at the State General Hospital for an autopsy,’’ Odoro  stated.
She also said that the case was under investigation.