BIRTHDAY TRAGEDY: Girl raped, fiance shot

NSUKKA—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-AnoCommunitySecondary
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
Odolu in KogiState.
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 quickly
rushed him to BishopShanahanHospital,
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.