A 34-year-old man, Ifeanyi Apusiobi in Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday reportedly killed his daughter and son.
He also inflicted injuries on his father before neighbours intervened and rescued the 72-year-old man.
A resident said Ifeanyi surprisingly went berserk early morning on Sunday and attacked and killed his children in their sleep.
The source said he could not say what happened to him, but suspected he took something that made him run amok.
It was also gathered that the suspect recently divorced his wife.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the incident, saying it happened at about 1am on Sunday.
He said the man killed the children, Chinecherem and Obinna with a wooden pestle in their sleep and also injured his aged father on the head.
He said the children were seven and five years old, respectively.
Mohammed speaking further on the incident, said at about 1am on Sunday , police operatives attached to Ogbunike police station arrested one Ifeanyi Apusiobi, aged 34years of Azu Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State.
He said the suspect allegedly ran amok in circumstances yet to be ascertained and attacked two of his biological children namely Chinecherem Apusiobi( daughter) aged seven years and Obinna Apusiobi (son) aged five years with a wooden pistle on their heads while they were sleeping.
According to him, suspect equally used same object and injured his father one Dominic Apusiobi aged 72 years, on the head.
The PPRO said police detectives visited the scene and rushed victims to the hospital for medical attention where the children were certified dead by a medical doctor while the aged father was responding to treatment.
He added that the case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Awka, for discreet investigation
