Five Embu college students raped, robbed in hostel by armed gangsters

Five female students from Embu College were on Thursday night raped by a gang that broke into their hostels

in Bondeni

estate.

They are being treated at

Embu Level Five teaching and Referral Hospital.

The ten man

gang broke into the student's Castle Girls Hostels at midnight.

The hostel is just

100 meters from an AP

post.

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"Th

gangsters gained access into the hostels at around midnight armed with machetes, metal bars and other crude weapons, they

demanded money, laptops and gas cylinders and other personal items," said a

traumatized

student.

The students

said the gang used their weapons to inflict injuries on those who did not heed their demands and raped them.

Police in Embu have launched an investigation into the incident.

The students said that they contacted the caretaker of the hostel but no one came to their rescue.

Embu County Commissioner Esther Maina condemned the incident and wondered how such an awful incident could take place within the residential area while a police post is a

stone throw away.

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