A 34 year old man, Ifeanyi Apusiobi, on Sunday, allegedly killed his daughter and son in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. He was also alleged to have inflicted injuries on his father before neighbours rescued the 72 year old man. A resident said Ifeanyi went berserk early in the morning and attacked his children and killed them in their sleep. “I can’t just say what happened to him. Maybe he took something that made him to run amok. I can’t just say. It’s painful,”the resident stated. The Police Public Relations Officer,(PPRO) in the state confirmed the incident, which happened around 1am. The PPRO explained that the man killed the children, Chinecherem and Obinna, with a pestle, while they were asleep, adding that he also injured his aged father by name Dominic Apusiobi in the head. He said the children were seven and five years old. The PPRO said police detectives visited the scene and rushed the victims to hospital for medical attention, where the children were pronounced dead by a medical doctor, while Dominic, the father was responding to treatment. ” The corpses were deposited in the Isienyi Hospital morgue for autopsy. The exhibit had been recovered and the case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Awka, for discreet investigation.”