Personnel of the Rivers State Police Command on Wednesday rescued a young woman, who was almost strangled in a hotel in Mile 4 axis of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The woman, whose name could not be immediately ascertained, was said to have struggled with the man, who attempted to choke her with a pillow while she was asleep.
Our correspondent gathered that the woman had slept off, but woke up coincidentally around 2:00 a.m. to notice that the man had carried a pillow to choke her to death.A source from Mile 4 said the woman began to raise the alarm when the man became violent and struggled with her as she tried to approach the door.
“The woman immediately began to shout and the people in the hotel called the police, who raced to the place and forced the door open. They eventually rescued the woman and arrested the man,” the source said. Speaking with our correspondent on Wednesday, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, said the suspect had been moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Command.
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