ONE person was shot dead while five women were raped yesterday, as robbers attacked a luxury bus travelling to Calabar at Abudu, Edo State.
Meanwhile, the police in Benin City, have arrested two persons allegedly involved in the raping of a 16-year-old girl in Benin City.
Vanguard gathered that the luxury bus with registration number XB443NEN had taken off from Lagos only to be intercepted by the robbers numbering over eight at about 2:00am. The robbery was said to have lasted over three hours.
It was further learnt that the robbers who were shooting sporadically ordered the passengers out of the bus and collected cash worth over N1 million and took their time to rape the women after collecting their belongings.
One of the victims who craved anonymity, told Vanguard that the robbers barricaded the highway with heavy logs of wood which forced the driver to stop the bus.
�After we stopped, they started shooting at our bus and and one lady was shot dead immediately while some of us sustained gun shot injuries. After that, they asked all of us to bring out our money which we did.
�But surprisingly after collecting all we had, they asked some of the ladies to come out and that was how they started raping them one after the other. One of the girls that was even raped was travelling to the East to introduce her fiancee to her parents but unfortunately she was raped in the presence of her husband-to-be�, he narrated.
Meanwhile the remains of the dead woman have been deposited at a private clinic in Agbor.
However, a police source at the AIG Zone 5 Benin, told Vanguard that the two persons arrested allegedly raped the young girl (names withheld) last Tuesday along Temboga axis of Ikpoba hill.
He told Vanguard that �the suspects pretended to be giving the young girl a free ride when she visited her relations along Murtala Mohammed. But they drove the girl straight to a forest along Temboga and raped her after inflicting series of injuries on her.�