The police in Gombe State say that they are investigating the gruesome murder of a 17-year-old girl, Lilian Samuel Mato, by some unknown assailants.
Fwaje Atajiri, the Police Public Relations Officer in Gombe State, said this, while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Gombe on Sunday.
Atajiri said that the girl was killed by the assailants on Saturday night in the Tumfure neighbourhood of Gombe.
Atajiri said that although police investigations had commenced, no arrest had been made in connection with the killing.
Samuel Mato, the father of the slain girl, told newsmen that Lilian was stabbed in the thigh by the killers, adding that she was later rushed to the Specialist Hospital in Gombe, where she died.
Mato said that his daughter was escorting a friend when the assailants accosted her, some metres away from their house and stabbed her with a knife.
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