Robber falls into well while trying to escape after raiding students hostel - NEWS FRONTIER DAILY

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Robber falls into well while trying to escape after raiding students hostel





An armed robbery suspect, simply identified by his nickname, Bob Jay fell into an open well on Friday night after he and other gang members raided students hostel in Unicross,  Okuku campus.


The robbers, according to a student of the school who gave her name as Regina, attacked students in their hostel at about 12 midnight and carted away laptops, phones and money and after the robbery,  one of the hoodlums fell into an open well while trying to escape with their loot. 


"They were many that came around 12 midnight. They robbed all the students in the Okuku hostel. They stabbed one student, broke the head of another with a stick before escaping with phones, laptops and other valuables".


She said the  well was used by students to fetch water to bathe and wash clothes and has no cover.

"Nobody knew that one of the robbers fell into the well until dawn   when students went to fetch water  and saw the man inside dead. They raised alarm and the community people came and took him out and was identified as one of the robbers and some people said his name is Bob Jay from Mbube, a neigbouring village"


She said the police were alerted and they  came and took the body away


She said no  other gang members
identified yet since the robbers phone fished out of his picket is blur.


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