An armed robbery suspect known by his nickname, Bob Jay, has lost his life while fleeing after raiding a students’ hostel at UNICROSS campus in Okuku, Cross River State.
The robbery took place on Friday night into Saturday morning according to a student named Regina.
She told the Vanguard that the robbers attacked students in their hostel at midnight and stole laptops, phones, and money.
They left the hostel with their loot, but while running away, one of them fell into an open well that students use for storing water for bathing and washing their clothes.
“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”.
“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 the 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 neighbouring village”.
According to her, the police were involved, and they visited the scene to take away the corpse.
She said no other gang members had yet been identified because the phone of the dead robber was drenched and was malfunctioning.
