Tension Mounts in Zorzor over Woman’s Brutal death

IPNewws- Monrovia, Liberia-18 June 2018: Tension is said to be mounting in a town call Zalemie, Zorzor district Lofa county over brutal killing of a 9th-grade student of Sumokota Public School.

According to the Liberian News Agency-LINA, some students of the Sumokota public school concern residents begun setting up roadblocks and ransacking properties, calling for government’s intervention in bringinig the perpetrators to justice.

The report also said the victim who is a young woman identified as Krubo Gibson and her boyfriend Mulbah Z. Flomo went to their farm on Thursday, June 14, and while on the farm the alleged perpetrator, identified as Smithwou Ballah crept on them and shot the boyfriend with a single barrel gun.

The lady, hearing the gunfire, fled for her life, but the alleged perpetrator ran after her and shot her in the back, and killing her instantly and then mutilated her body, cutting off her head, her right hand, her private parts and her right foot.

Her boyfriend, who fled earlier managed to reach Fissebu, where he was rescued and taken to the Zorzor Hospital and was later rushed to the Tellewoyan Hospital in Voinjama, where his condition is said to be improving, although many had believed that he was dead after he lapsed into a coma that lasted several hours.

Upon hearing of the incident, aggrieved citizens of the area blocked the main road for several hours, demanding the living body of the alleged perpetrator and the extracted parts of the late Krubo.

The angry citizens went on the rampage, stoning the Zorzor Police Station, destroying 4 houses belonging to the alleged perpetrator’s family, setting the perpetrator’s father and brother’s rice kitchens ablaze and unmercifully flogging his(the perpetrator’s) father, Kollie Ballah, who is the principal of a school in Zalemie.

Mr. Kollie Ballah was later rushed to Monrovia for treatment.

The brutal killing of the lady has sparked off angry reactions on social media (Facebook), with many expressing shock and disbelief and describing the act as dreadful, wicked and barbaric.

Meanwhile, five police officers are currently undergoing treatment after their vehicle suffered an accident while on their way from Gbarnga to Zorzor to respond to the situation.