A four-year-old girl identified as Aisosa Ogbeide has been shot dead by robbers who attacked her parents’
residence at House number 19, Enadeghe Street, Off Ugbowo-Lagos Road in Edo State.
Late little baby Aisosa
The Nation reports that the deceased’s father, Dr. Kingsley Ogbeide, a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Benin, said his two children between the ages of six and two sustained bullet wounds during the attack.
Dr. Ogbeide told journalists that the gunmen scaled the fence of his building and broke into his apartment at about 4:00 a.m. on November 19th.
Ogbeide said he opened the slide on one of the windows in the sitting room for fresh air to come into the building when somebody flashed a torch on him, followed by a voice that ordered him to open the door.
He said, “We started scampering for safety and raised alarm to nearby neighbours. The children woke up, we all ran to the lobby, within two minutes they broken the protector and were inside the house.
“When they entered they started asking where is the money, where is the gold. I said we don’t have money or gold. Truthfully I was only having N500 in my wallet. My wife had no money. We are just civil servants. We told them that there are laptops, and they took the laptops and phones.
“Being that the lobby door was a bit closed, one of them suddenly shot through the door and the bullet hit one of my daughters, a four and a half years old daughter who died on the spot while the other two children sustained some injuries.
“I don’t know why one of them fired the shot, because the door was not locked, even the other robber was now quarrelling with him, saying why did you shot? Look! Now you have killed a girl,” Dr Ogbeide narrated.
He further stated that the hoodlums escaped before the police could arrive the scene.
May her soul rest in peace.
SOURCE: The Nation Online
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