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From Sylvanus Viashima, Jalingo
Eighteen–year-old Miss Wassa Joel Tuwa from Yorro Local Government Area of Taraba State has been raped and killed by yet to be identified person(s).
A Family source, Mr. Ayuba Solomon Bissa, told Daily Sun that Tuwa was gang-raped and killed behind a mountain near Jalingo.
Ayuba said the victim left their family house in Jalingo to the village in Lankaviri, near Jalingo, last 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 reviewed that the victim was gang-raped before she was eventually killed.
“My younger sister (Wassa) left our family house here, along Bishop’s Court, Jalingo, to the village in Lankaviri, on Saturday, where the killers met her.
“Until Sunday morning, when a little boy, who was hawking firewood, discovered her 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, comprising the military and the police, came and advised us to convey the body to the mortuary and allow for a security investigation.
“We took the body to Federal Medical Centre Jalingo, and the doctor, after conducting the needed test, confirmed to us that the victim was gang-raped before she was killed. I wish to appeal to the security operatives to carry out their investigation, so that the perpetrators would be brought to justice,” Ayuba narrated.
