Youths burn hotel over alleged murder in Imo community

Youths burn hotel over alleged murder in Imo community

Youths of Umulogho community in Obowo Local Government Area have burnt part of a hotel building over the alleged killing of a staff, Ebuka Nwaneri, for reportedly stealing a phone at the weekend belonging to a military personnel.

The owner of the hotel, Ibe Obasi and phone owner, a military personnel, who came to the hotel to relax allegedly accused the staff of stealing the missing phone.

A source from the community, who narrated the incident to The Nation, said the deceased was locked up in a generator house to make him confess to the crime.

But the victim, according to the source, later died from the alleged torture.

His corpse was reportedly thrown over the fence of the hotel to the adjoining bush by the suspects.

But youths in the community later found the corpse on Saturday morning.

A source in the community said: “The deceased was working for the suspect and a phone got lost,the phone belonged to a military man on duty at the community.

“He went to the hotel for relaxation and his phone got lost. The hotelier and the security officer  in a bid to recover the phone started beating him, before locking him up in his generator house inside the premises of the hotel.

“When he found out that he had died, they threw him over the fence of the hotel to avoid being suspected.”.

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Angry youths of the community stormed the hotel and set part of it ablaze.

They also threatened reprisal attack on family members of the hotelier if nothing was done to bring him to book over the incident.