Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

Tanzania: Mwanza Police Probe 'Love Deaths'

17 July 2012

Mwanza — POLICE in Mwanza are investigating circumstances that led to the deaths of Salum Kitekelo (40) and his wife Veronica Elias (30) both residents of Kigogo ward in the city.

Mwanza Regional police commander (RPC) Liberatus Barlow said on Monday that Kitekelo who was a businessman killed his wife Veronica Elias who according to RPC was also a businesswoman after he has clubbed her and stabbed her to death with a knife.

Barlow explained that after killing his wife, Kitekelo decided to hang himself with a bed sheet.RPC Barlow explained further that preliminary investigations had shown that the cause of deaths could be jealousy as Kitekelo was allegedly been complaining that his wife was not respecting their marriage.

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