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Hoodlums Gang Rape Student To Death In Taraba

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Miss Mercy Victor, a final year student of the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Jalingo, have allegedly lost her life as a result of the injuries she sustained following a gang rape on her by hoodlums on Sunday night.

ASP David Missal, the Taraba Police Public Relations Officer, while confirming the incidence to newsmen in Jalingo said “the matter was reported to the Headquarters on Tuesday morning and was referred to the GRA Police Station in Jalingo for investigation,”

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NAN revealed that the President of the National Union of Taraba Students, Mr Hope Vyonku, who also confirmed the incident to journalists in Jalingo revealed that Mercy ran into the evil gang on her way to school on Sunday night while returning from a weekend.

“I was told that she was returning to the school from town on a tricycle she boarded when the incident happened close to the bridge after the State Specialist Hospital, Jalingo.

“A passerby later discovered her by the road side and rushed her to the State Specialist Hospital where she died this morning,” he said.

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Vyonku also implored security agencies to put measures in place to ensure that the security of the students in the state were assured.

“We have declared one week of mourning in honour of Mercy and all victims of hoodlum-related crimes in the state,’’ he said.