Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs, have strangled Mrs Amma Buwa, the daughter of a member of Borno State House of Assembly, Bukar Abacha, in the Gidan Dembe area of Maiduguri, the state capital.
A source according to Vanguard said the unfortunate incident occurred around 6:30pm on Tuesday when the husband was said to have left the compound to a nearby mosque for prayers.
The husband of the victim who took the corpse to the police station, said he found her lifeless body in his house with her hand and legs tied behind her back while her two-year-old child was crying beside her.
Meanwhile, police authorities in Gwange Division is said to have moved the corpse to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for autopsy and investigation.