Commercial activities were grounded on Thursday in Umuguma a suburb of Owerri metropolis as a sex worker stabbed her client to death for allegedly refusing to pay her after sexual intercourse.
This is even as angry youths set ablaze the hotel popularly known as Skeleu.
The incident which caused panic in the area forced motorists to take alternative routes as the fire raged.
A source who witnessed the incident disclosed that the commercial sex worker got angry when after marathon sex the deceased could not pay her the agreed amount of money, adding that the prostitute ran out of patience and stabbed him to death.
Angered by the death of the man, residents mobilized and set the hotel which is said to be a beehive of commercial sexual activities on fire.
Hours after the hotel had been razed, military personnel suspected to had been deployed from the 34 artillery Brigade, Obinze, Owerri, stormed the scene to maintain order.
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