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<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41"><strong>Woman in a fit of jealousy allegedly, killed her two children in Diso village, Kano, one of the states in Nigeria&#8217;s mostly Muslim north </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41"><strong>Five-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim and his three-year-old sister Zahra&#8217;u, reportedly, were slaughtered Saturday morning</strong>, while their father was out of the home </h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41"><strong>The third victim, her 10-year-old niece, was injured but survived the knife attack and identified the assailant to cops</strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41"><strong>Hauwa Habibu allegedly killed her children because her husband married a second wife </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41">Habibu, 26, has confessed that she locked up their home before attacking the three children with a machete and a metal Pestle , causing severe injuries on different parts of their bodies</h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41">She fled the crime scene but was taken into custody on Sunday and paraded before he media with the alleged murder weapon, a bloody machete </h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#503f41"><strong>Hauwa had been angry since her husband, Ibrahim Haruna Aminu, got married to a second wife two months earlier, family members said</strong> </h1>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Yussuf-and-Zahra-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355913" width="579" height="423"/><figcaption><strong>Innocent victims: Yusuf and Zahra&#8217;u Aminu were left dead in a pool of blood by their mom, who fled the scene and remains at large</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A housewife allegedly killed two of her children on Saturday in Diso, a village in Kano one of the states in the northern part Nigeria. <br>Hauwa Habibu, 26, launched the fatal knife attack and double-homicide of her son Yusuf, five and his three-year-old sister Zahra’u allegedly, in jealous rage after her husband married a second wife. <br>Habibu&#8217;s niece Aisha, 10, who lives with the couple was injured in her murderous machete rampage, but is expected to survive<br>The suspect fled the home after her gruesome crime but has been arrested after 24 hours on the run. The alleged murder weapon has also been recovered.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Hauwa-Habibu-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355937"/><figcaption><strong>Police paraded 26-year-old Hauwa Habibu, seen holding the bloody machete she alleged used in killing her two children at Diso Quarters in Gwale Local Government Area of Kano state on Saturday morning</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Kano State Police command paraded the suspect on Sunday holding the alleged murder weapon, a bloody machete.<br>Authorities said Habibu has confessed that she locked up their house, before attacking the three children with a machete and a metal pestle , causing severe injuries on different parts of their bodies.<br>Timely medical intervention saved Aisha, the killer&#8217;s 10-year niece who lived to tell investigators the horrific tale. The younger children were not so lucky.<br>The family are Muslims from Gwale Local Government area of Kano state. Kano like most of the states in the northern part of the country, are majority Muslim, which permits polygamy. Polygamous marriages are quite common in that part of Nigeria</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Hauwa-Habibu-with-her-children-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355940" width="577" height="866"/><figcaption><strong>Hauwa Habibu [arrowed], has confessed that she slayed her children, Yusuf Ibrahim, 5, and three-year-old Zahra&#8217;u on Oct 3. Kano police said </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Yusuf-and-Zahrau-with-their-father-Ibrahim-Haruna-Aminu-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Yusuf-and-Zahrau-with-their-father-Ibrahim-Haruna-Aminu-1.jpg" width="579" height="386"/><figcaption><strong>The children Yusuf and Zahra&#8217;u flanking their their father, Ibrahim Haruna Aminu, allegedly were killed on Saturday because the mom was upset Aminu married a second wife</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The murders happened inside the family home on Saturday morning, when the children&#8217;s dad had gone to his second wife&#8217;s place to spend some time.<br>The children&#8217;s uncle, Sadiq Haruna Aminu, who confirmed that their mother was the suspect in the killings. His sister-in-law he said, had been seething with jealousy rage since his brother married another wife.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Yussuf-and-Zahra-3.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Yussuf-and-Zahra-3.jpg" width="581" height="633"/><figcaption><strong>The remains of the young victims Yusuf and Zahra&#8217;u being taken out of the home in on Saturday morning, in Diso village, Gwale Local Government area in kano, Nigeria</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Hauwa-Habibu-neice-who-she-attacked-with-a-knife.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355939"/><figcaption><strong>Survivor: Hauwa Habibu&#8217;s 10-year-old niece Aisha, [photo], who lives with the couple was injured in her murderous machete rampage on Oct 3., but survived. She is helping police with the investigation</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sadiq revealed that his older brother got married to his new wife two months earlier: “The incident happened when the husband was away and in his new wife’s place”, Sadiq said.<br>“His eldest wife, Hauwa ‘called him on phone this morning that all was not well in their house only for him to return to the house and meet the lifeless bodies of the children in the pool of blood. She carried out the atrocities and ran away from the house”, he said.<br>“She beat the children and used knife to cut them. Her sister’s [10-year-old] daughter who was living with them was another victim but she survived with cuts on her hand and she is the witness when the incident happened. We don’t know her whereabouts at the moment because we spoke with security operatives. We learnt she went to her parent’s house,” Sadiq added.<br>The ward head of Diso, Malam Ahmad Bello who expressed shock over the incident. He condemned the murders, adding ” we have taken the matter to court instead of taking the laws into our hands.</p>

Woman kills her son and daughter, 5 and 3, because her Muslim husband married second wife
