Woman Stabs 12-Year-Old Girl In Rivers, Nabbed While Fleeing

Woman Stabs 12-Year-Old Girl In Rivers, Nabbed While Fleeing

A 30-year-old woman simply identified as Abigail has been arrested by the operatives of the Rivers State Police Command while fleeing after stabbing a 12-year-old girl multiple times while the knife was still stuck in the victim’s body.

But the victim, Miss Orluebube who survived the attack was rushed to the hospital, and Doctors carried out surgery to extract the broken knife stuck at her back.

Both Orluebube and her attacker are residents of Chukwu Street, in the Rumuodara Community of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State where the attack took place.

Abigail, who is currently being interrogated following the attack.

According to the victim’s elder sister, Oluchi noted that what led to the attack was something that should not have escalated to the point of her sister being stabbed multiple times.

She said that her sister was carrying water, and did not know that the woman, Abigail, was coming into the corridor when both of them collided because it was dark.

She added: The woman(Abigail) was fetching water outside and because our corridor is dark, any person that is inside or outside can barely see each other.

“The woman fell with her bucket of water. The woman got angry and start beating my sister, everybody started begging her that my sister did not know she was in the corridor.

“She went back to fetch another water, my sister continued to wash the plate. On coming back from where she went to fetch water and she saw that the pool of water was still there, the woman entered inside her house and came out with a kitchen knife and stabbed my sister in the back.

“She told my sister that she should sweep the water before she comes back from fetching another water. My sister agreed.

“As soon she saw that the head of the knife broke and the knife stuck inside my sister’s back. She entered inside her room, locked her door, passed behind, scaled the fence and fled.

The spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that the victim is responding to treatment, while the investigation is going on.