Was it domestic quarrel or some sort of a ritual? A witchdoctor has just hacked his wife to death at night just as the moon turned red in Northern Tanzania.
A former Taxi Driver, turned witchdoctor in Arusha, has shocked the entire community after he slaughtered his wife in the middle of the night, letting her blood flow underneath the door and onto the neighborhood.
The suspect Daniel Mbwambo, in his 50s reportedly hacked his better half to death in the middle of the night, just when the moon was turning red during the recent eclipse.
The murder took place when the two were on their own in the locked house at the Bondeni Kati ward in Mapambazuko area of Arusha-Urban District.
Neighbors allege that the suspect Mbwambo got out of his house at about midnight and started shouting that the police should be summoned because something serious has just occurred in the home.
The lady who was murdered in cold blood has been identified as Upendo Elibariki. As it happens, she was also in her 50s, almost the same age with her husband.
Apparently, Upendo is said to have been the wife of Daniel, a former taxi driver in Arusha city, but the two had previously quarreled and separated.
Relatives say, earlier on, Daniel had attacked this same wife with a metallic rod on the head, hurting her badly, forcing the lady to flee.
However, with his taxi business faring badly, Mbwambo decided to switch trade, embarking into traditional medicine and was working as herbal healer throughout the time that he lived alone.
Neighbors say Daniel had a tendency of slaughtering animals, including goats, sheep and chicken and hanging their carcasses outside the house in some sort of rituals.
That used to scare the neighbors away from the house.
Later, Daniel’s former wife Upendo, for some reason, decided to go back to her husband.
Either that, or Daniel Mbwambo, now turned witchdoctor, called her back to the house.
But on that fateful night between September 7 and 8, during the lunar eclipse, the suspect allegedly used some sort of sharp weapon, possibly a machete and even a big knife to chop the lady to pieces.
When the police arrived at the scene, they found the entire house drenched in blood.
The murder could have occurred between midnight and early hours of September 8.
However, the deceased body was discovered in the morning and this was after the suspect himself summoned the neighbors.
Daniel was arrested, and he will soon be arraigned to court.