Robbers attack luxury bus, rape schoolgirls

A luxury bus belonging to Ekenedilichukwu transport company with 42 female students of  a secondary school (name withheld) on board was weekend attacked by a 12-man robbery gang  at Oke-Odo,  along Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Ogun State. Some of the female students were reportedly raped  by the hoodlums. The students said to be returning  to their parents in Lagos for the Easter holidays, were also reportedly dispossessed of cash, GSM handsets and other valuables which monetary value could not be immediately ascertained.

They left Enugu for Lagos on Saturday morning but the luxury bus developed a mechanical fault which could not be repaired immediately.

Another luxury bus with Number Plate XW  875 LSR was  brought by the transport company to convey the stranded students to Lagos. But by then it was already late in the evening.

However, on reaching Oke-Odo  at about 11.40pm, the gun-wielding  robbers  reportedly intercepted the luxury bus, ordering all passengers to lie down, cooperate or risk losing their lives.

Report also said that the robbers thereafter, hijacked the luxury bus and drove it far inside the bush, where they allegedly gang- raped some of the teenage students and made away with their valuables.

Meanwhile, in Lagos, parents and relatives of the victims became apprehensive after waiting endlessly for their wards. Tension heightened when they got wind of the attack which  made them to pass  the night at the park, waiting for their return. 

When the students eventually arrived yesterday morning, parents and relatives wailed at the sight of some of  the blood-stained teenagers.

Some  however, were dazed as they could not find their wards among those that came in. An unconfirmed report however had it that some of the passengers fled while the robbery was going on in Ogun State.

Management of the transport company was said to have immediately rushed most of the victims to the hospital.