Barely a week after a dastardly murder of university student in Ekiti State, police now confirm another mystery death.
Spokesperson of Anambra Police Command said in a statement the Nnamdi Azikiwe University student died from from stray bullets.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University is a federal university located at Awka, capital of Anambra State, Nigeria.
The student, simply identified as Uche, was on her way to make purchases in a market at Awka when a stray bullet hit her.
Eyewitnesses said that suspected cultists chased and shot at a tricycle commercial rider along Awka Onitsha expressway when the incident happened. The bullet aimed at the driver hit Uche instead.
Witnesses also said the driver was hit and fell from his vehicle on the road where he lay motionless. However, when his assailants left him for dead, he suddenly sprang up and made a dash for it.
The incident happened on Thursday 14 September at Miracle Junction, Ifite Awka in Anambra State.
The remains of the slain student is now at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital.
Police spokesperson Ikenga asked eyewitnesses to come forward with information to enable them to identify and arrest the assailants.
“It is unfortunate,” Ikenga said
“Police preliminary findings reveal that the incidence is cult-related. We are collaborating with eyewitnesses to identify the perpetrators and arrest them.”
Ikenga said the police is now “better positioned to operate within the state and with road patrols now intensified.”
He maintained that the police will not stop its war against cultism.
“We remanded 33 Suspects in a cult-related incident last week,” he said.
Citizens can help the police in their work when they report things that they witnesses, he said.
This is the second university student reported death this month, after the gruesome murder of Federal University Oye-Ekiti student early this month.
The student, Modupe Deborah Atanda, was murdered and buried in a shallow grave in her school.
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