WHAT KIND OF CRUEL PARENTS WILL SEND THEIR DAUGHTER TO SELL GROUNDNUTS BY 8PM? : Girl, 16, found dead at block industry in Aba ..NAN

A 16-year-old girl was found dead on Saturday at the premises of a block industry in Aba, Abia State.
The girl hawked groundnuts around Eziukwu road in Aba. Her naked corpse was dumped at a corner of the industry. The tray of groundnuts being hawked by the deceased was kept on top of a nearby platform very close to where her body was dumped.
Some residents at the scene said that the girl must have been strangled but was stripped to make her death seem like a rape case.
One of the last people to have seen the victim alive, who did not want his name published, said that the girl received a phone call as she was selling groundnut to him around 8 p.m. on Friday and hurriedly dashed out to attend to her caller.
“I know her well,” he said. “She was selling groundnut to me around 8 p.m. when she got a call. She told the person to be patient with her that she will soon come to meet him. I jokingly told her that she should make sure she sold the entire groundnut to her caller. She laughed and hurriedly left to answer her supposed caller.”
The victim’s family members were said to have become apprehensive when several calls made to her phone around 9 p.m. on Friday went unanswered. They were, however, notified on Saturday morning that the girl had been found dead at the premises of the industry.
The Police Area Commander in charge of Aba Area Command, Rabiu Dayi, who spoke at the crime scene, described the incident as unfortunate. He assured that the police were on top of the situation and would, with time, ascertain the cause of her death and the people behind it. Dayi said his men would leave no stone unturned in apprehending the culprits and also make sure that they were brought to justice.
The state’s Police Commissioner, Mr Usman Abubakar, said that an autopsy would be carried out to determine cause of death. “The foam coming from her nose could mean that she was strangled to death,” he said. “It is only medical professionals that can tell us the exact cause of her death and that will be through autopsy report. Whatever that could have led to her death would be unravelled as soon as the autopsy report is out.”