Woman throws daughters into well in Osun, says she’s unable to cater for them

A woman on Tuesday threw her two daughters into a well in Osun State at Anjorin Street, Ibuaje community, Osogbo, Osun State capital over inability to cater for them.

It was gathered that the woman had earlier complained to neighbours.

One of the residents, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “She first threw the elder one that is seven years old and then threw the younger one that is five years old into the well at about 2pm.’

The Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Fire Service, Mr Ibrahim Adekunle, said the well has 24 rings and that it is filled with water.

He said the Fire Service men were making frantic efforts to rescue the girls.

Speaking in an incoherent manner, the mother of children said that she was living abroad before she was later deported and that she was frustrated because of hardship in Nigeria.

But some of the people in the community said she might be insane because of the trauma which followed her deportation.