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No fewer than nine female students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka on Friday, were reportedly raped by a gang of suspected armed robbers who invaded over thirty off-campus hostels .
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that 17 other female students sustained various degrees of injury.during the incident .
It was further gathered that over 20 armed robbers Invaded the Ifite road Awka, the Anambra state capital where the hostels were located.
The robbers were reportedly shooting sporadically and robbing from room to room and hostel to hostel at about 12 .30 am Thursday night and this lasted for about three hours unchallenged.
A student of the university said the robbers were heavily armed with guns, axes and matchets going from room to room rapping female students and robbing them of phones, ipads .
“We were at the hostel when we had gunshots that lasted for about ten minutes and we ran for our lives because they have not gotten to our own hostel and we had hidden at the back of some shops in the area.”
“Then we had loud noise of female students shouting for help but nobody could summon the courage to stop them because they are well armed”
“Those that attempted to resist were beaten blue black and many people got injured but I cannot say the number of people affected.”
“One of the female students that was raped is a virgin and they rapped her twice and we are holding her because she wants to commit suicide”
“The number of hostels in Ifite -Awka is about 300 and including upstairs and bungalows but from what we got after the incident more than seventeen students were injured and that number of those raped may be nine or ten or even twelve”.
The Police Public Relations Officer DSP Tochukwu Ikenga confirmed the incident:
Ikenga said “Our men on getting wind of the information got to Ifite Awka and were able to battle the criminals.”
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