A newspaper vendor in Calabar, Cross River State, Mr. Innocent Monday-Francis (22), on Thursday was allegedly murdered by one of his neighbours identified as Eno, for his refusal to allow him read the papers.
The deceased, who sold newspapers around the popular Flour Mill junction, along the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, had retired to a neighbourhood bar at Ikot-Effanga area of Calabar to take a bottle of drink when the incident occurred.
The deceased’s brother said after the disagreement between Eno and his brother, Eno got angry and slapped his brother and in retaliation Monday-Francis emptied the content of his glass on the assailant but after people’s intervention, the vendor immediately went home.
“It was while he was already at home eating outside that Eno came to hit him with shovel twice on his neck and head and he slumped and died immediately,” the brother said.
The police at the Federal Housing Police Station had on Friday morning taken his corpse to the mortuary.
The Cross River State Police Public Relations officer, Mr. John Umoh, said the suspect was already at large.
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