See Photos Of The 17-Year-Old Bride Killed By Jealous Wife In Kano State (Graphic Photos)

The police have arrested a housewife in Kano State for allegedly killing her husband’s fiancée, a week to their wedding.

The police on Tuesday said Suwaiba Shuaibu, 20, stabbed Aisha Kabir, 17, to death in an uncompleted building in Doguwa Local Government Area of the state. 

The police representative in Kano, Abdullahi Kiyawa, said Kabiru Jafaru had stopped a report with the police that Miss Kabir was missing. 

Mr Kiyawa said the police after fundamental examination captured Mrs Shuaibu of a similar location as the complainant. 

The suspect is the spouse of Shaibu Ali, who was to be married to Miss Kabir on January 9, following six years of romance, the police said. 

"During cross examination, the presume admitted that she had called the casualty on telephone, misled and attracted her to an uncompleted structure in their local where she utilized a sharp blade to wound her on her neck, chest and different pieces of her body. 

"I executed the Aisha out of envy in light of the fact that my significant other proposed to wed her," the police cited the presume saying. 

Officials emptied the cadaver of Miss Kabir to Tudun Wada General Hospital, the police representative said. 

He said the state's Commissioner of Police, Habu Sani, has guided the case to be moved to the order's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Homicide Section, to wrap up the examination. 

Mr Kiyawa said the suspect would be charged to court after the activity.