An 18-year-old identified as Miss Wassa Joel Tuwa from Yoro local government area of Taraba state was raped to death by unidentified persons in a bush path along Rankaviri village close to Jalingo, Taraba state capital.
A family source, Mr. Ayuba Solomon Bissa told journalists that Miss Tuwa was gang-raped and killed while her body was thrown behind a rock near Jalingo.
According to Ayuba, the deceased left her family house in Jalingo to Lankavirir, a nearby village on Saturday evening. She followed through a small market road around Lankaviri to make her journey shorter where she was raped to death.
He also disclosed that medical autopsy revealed that the victim was gang-raped before she was eventually killed.
“My younger sister (Wassa), left our family house here along Bishop’s Coat in Jalingo to the village in Lankavirir on Saturday, she could not reach to village nor return to Jalingo.
“Until 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 her lifeless body beside the road close to one mountain.
“We did not touch her body, we invited the security personnel operating in the area to see and advice on what to do. The security men comprised of military and the police, came and advised us to conveyed 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 deepen their investigation so that the perpetrators would be brought to justice,” Ayuba narrated.
When contacted for confirmation, the Police Public Relations Officer PPRO Taraba State Command Usman Abubakar said the command was yet to get details of the incident.
Meanwhile, rampaging criminals have killed five people in Jos East and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of Plateau State.
Sources from Jos East local government told newsmen that one Agada Sambo of Zangam village in Maigemu District, who went to pay ransom for the release of two kidnapped victims, Luka Izang and Azi, was held back after he delivered the ransom while Luka was set free.
According to the source, another person by the name of Jerry was sent with another ransom to free Agada; the kidnappers collected the ransom, sent Jerry back, and killed Agada and Azi, who were earlier in captivity with Luka.
It was learnt that both Azi and Agada, though from different villages, were buried on Sunday in Zangam as agreed by their relatives.
It was also gathered that the police, military personnel, and hunters are combing the bushes and hills of Maigemu in search of the perpetrators.
Spokesman for Plateau Police Command, DSP Alfred Alabo, who confirmed the incident, stated that men of the command are on top of the situation to arrest the culprits.
Similarly, a vigilante member and one other person were killed, and a large expanse of farmland was destroyed, when a group of bandits attacked a village in Fan district, Barkin-Ladi local government area on Sunday around 8:30pm.
The National President, Berom Youth Moulders (BYM), Solomon Dalyop, confirmed the murder, adding that the bandits, who came from a nearby settlement, invaded Fan community when the inhabitants were preparing to go to bed.
According to him, after killing the two young men, they destroyed virtually all farms in the community, adding that the bandits also killed another person in Dasak in the Rop district of the local government.
