BIRTHDAY TRAGEDY: Girl raped, fiance shot

Tragedy struck at the university town
of Nsukka, EnuguState, weekend, as
unidentified gunmen raped a young girl, who
was celebrating her birthday with her lover
boy, who was also shot in the head.
Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred
last Saturday, when the girl's boyfriend,
identified as Sunday Ozioko, 30, took out his lover in his new Toyota Camry saloon car as part of the birthday celebration.
It was learned that the gunmen, who rode in a motorcycle, blocked the vehicle along Orba
Road at 6.30p.m., took over the car and sped
off through Orba Market to Obollo-Afor.
They stopped at Alor-AnoCommunity Secondary
School, raped the girl and shot her fiancé,
who survived the attack, but was said to be in critical condition.
A source told Vanguard that when the two
gunmen were through at 9:30p.m., they gave the victim N 500, having been dropped off at Odoluin Kogi State.
Realising that the girl could identify then
later, the bandits allegedly made for the girl again, who was able to escape through a path that led her to a crusade ground, where Adonai Faith Assembly was having a vigil.
Rescue
The obviously horrified girl was said to have narrated her ordeal to the congregation, who she told her fiancee was still lying in his
pool of blood.
According to a source, the pastor of the
church immediately swung into action, reached out to the police at Nsukka Urban, who quicklyrushed him to Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka.
Efforts made to speak with the victim at his
hospital private ward proved abortive as his
relations barred press men from seeing him.
Sunday Ozioko has, however, been transferred
to UNTH, Enugu, for a surgical operation on
his head.
Enugu State Police spokesman, Ebere Amarizu,
said police were on top of the situation and
vowed that everything would be done to track
down the bandits.
Source-vanguard

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