How alleged criminals gang-raped, killed 18-year-old girl in Taraba
By Terna Chikpa, Jalingo
Yet to be identified criminals have reportedly gang-raped and killed one miss Wassa Joel Tuwa, in Yorro Local Government Area of Taraba State.
A Family source, Mr Ayuba Solomon Bissa, told our correspondent that, miss Tuwa who was 18 years old, was gang-raped and killed behind a mountain near Jalingo.
According to Ayuba, the victim left their family house in Jalingo to the village in Lankavirir near Jalingo on Saturday evening, and decided to follow through a small market road around Lankaviri to make her journey shorter when the criminals killed her.
He also disclosed that medical autopsy has reviewed that the victim was gang-raped before she was eventually killed.
“My younger sister (Wassa), left our family house here along Bishop’s coat Jalingo, to the village in Lankavirir on Saturday where the killers met her.
“Untill sunday morning when a little boy who was hawking firewood discovered her dead body by the road side and ran back to inform his parents of what he saw. Both the boy’s parents and other residents moved to the scene and discovered it was the lifeless body of my younger sister Wassa.
“We did not touch her, we invited the security personnel operating in the area to see and advice on what to do. The security men comprise of military and the police, came and advised us to convey the corpse to the mortuary and allow for security investigation.
“We took the corpse to Federal Medical Centre Jalingo and the doctor after conducting the needed test, he confirmed to us that the victim was gang-raped before she was killed.
“I wish to appeal to the security operatives to deep their investigation so that the perpetrators would be brought to justice,” Bissa, the family source narrated.
