Girl killed for refusing sex at gun point...

A gang of suspected armed robbers yesterday shot dead a middle aged lady (names withheld) for allegedly refusing to have sex with them.

The incident which took place at Igbukwu Street, Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, has raised lots of insinuations as to whether the girl was shot for refusing to be raped or that she was raped and thereafter shot by her captor as a way of concealing their heinous crime.

However, an eyewitness account has it that the suspected robbers, whose number could not be ascertained, allegedly killed the girl and abandoned her body in her residence, after attempts to have carnal knowledge of the victim failed.

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ebonyi State command, ASP John Eluu, stated that investigation had commenced into the matter but that no arrest had been made.

According to him, the police have deposited the body of the girl in a mortuary while an autopsy would be carried out by doctors to ascertain the circumstances behind the brutal murder of the deceased.

Eluu appealed to members of the public to provide useful information that would help the police in arresting the culprits.