A CHILD bride forced into marriage
has poisoned her husband and his friends by lacing their food with rat
poison, Nigerian police say.
Fourten-year-old Wasila Umaru told police she used rat poison in
the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love.
The couple was married last week.
The
35-year-old groom had invited a dozen friends to celebrate at his
village 100km from the north Nigerian city of Kano over the weekend.
Child marriage is common in Nigeria and especially in the mainly Muslim north.
Assistant
police superintendent Musa Magaji Majia said that the teenage suspect
is cooperating with police and probably will be charged with culpable
homicide.

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