Robbers injure scores, rape ladies in UNIZIK hostels

• Published date: 20 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

No fewer than 17 students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State sustained varying degrees of injury while unconfirmed number of female students were raped during a midnight robbery attack in the off-campus hostels.

A gang of suspected armed robbers, numbering about twenty were said to have raided scores of the hostels located along Ifite road, Awka.

The Nation gathered that the robbers who stormed the area at about 12.30 pm on Thursday, shot sporadically, robbing and raping girls for hours.

A student of the university, who preferred anonymity, said the robbers, heavily armed with guns, axes and matchets, went from room to room, hostel to hostel, raping female students and dispossessing them of their phones, ipads, money and other valuables unchallenged.

He said: 'We were at the hostel when we heard gunshots and fled for our dear lives as they were yet to get to our own hostel. We had to hide at the back of some shops in the area.

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'We had loud noise of female students shouting for help but nobody could summon the courage to stop them because they were well armed. Those that attempted to resist were beaten blue and black.

'The number of hostels in the area, including upstairs, is about 300, but from what we got after the incident more than 17 students were injured, while those rapped may be nine or ten.'

According to the student, one of the victims who claimed to be virgin threatened to take her life after she was raped, could not further the plan following their...