A deserted Aluu after the invasion by UNIPORT students. Inset top right are Mr. and Mrs. Toku, whose son was among the UNIPORT Four, while bottom are people fleeing Aluu.
The people of Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, one of the host communities of UNIPORT, have been on the defensive since then about the circumstances that led to the lynching of the undergraduates.
The four students – Chidiaka Biringa, Kelechi Ugonna, Lloyd Toku and Tekena Erikena- were branded thieves, brutalised and set ablaze by some members of the community for allegedly stealing a laptop computer and a BlackBerry phone.
Though many stories have been peddled about the circumstances that led to the killing of the students,
A 20-year old sales girl identified simply as Lucy, was on Friday shot dead by policemen in the Apo area of Abuja.
The girl was hit in the chest by bullets fired into a photography shop where she worked as a sales girl.
Three other people sustained gunshot injuries when policemen from the FCT Police Command fired bullets indiscriminately in an attempt to enforce the demolition order of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.
When Sergio Valdez saw his 1000-pound client, Marya Rosales, in bed for the first time, he almost mistook some of her folds of fat for pillows.
Rosales reportedly weighs nearly 1,100 pounds, enough to qualify her as one of the world's fattest women, but Valdez says even knowing she weighs more than five average men, doesn't prepare anyone for her sheer massiveness.
"When you first walk in, she's got a blanket covering her; there's pillows all around her and so you don't know whether it's pillows or whether it's her," he said. "If you reach back in again, you think this is all pillows. You make a circle and [you realize] that it's Mayra."
In 2008, Rosales first claimed she killed her 2-year-old nephew Eliseo Jr. when she accidentally rolled over and crushed him under her 1,100 pound frame, but Valdez knew something else was going on.
In a special interview, Rosales now says she saw her sister use a brush to hit Eliseo repeatedly on his arms, legs and head, and Valdez said she took the blame so that her sister's other kids would still have a mom.
Valdez said that Rosales' excuse collapsed under her own massive weight, especially after doctors determined the child's cause of death came from being hit, not from being smothered.
"We knew something was wrong from the very beginning," Valdez noted. "We said, we're going to have you reenact [how you killed the child] and you can show us."
See photos of Rosales below. WARNING: some images are graphic.
Rivers State Commissioner of Police Mohammed Ndabawa
Chinwe Biringa, mother of Chiadika, one of the four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who were lynched on Friday for allegedly stealing laptops and BlackBerry phones in Aluu community has said that policemen were present during the killings.
Chinwe who spoke in a telephone interview during a public affairs programme on Channels Television on Wednesday said she was disappointed with the way and manner the policemen looked on and did nothing to stop the gruesome murder of the four boys.
Police say a Southeast Texas woman who is pregnant with her fourth child has been charged with the deaths of her two infant sons.
Kristi-An Walker remained jailed Tuesday on murder and two other charges relating to the deaths that occurred separately. One was in April 2011 and the second was in June.
Angleton police say the 20-year-old mother told investigators she became frustrated with the boys because they wouldn't stop crying.
Court records did not list an attorney for Walker.
Police Sgt. Kirk Coleman says authorities began investigating Walker after her 6-month old son died June 21. Police say the probe led investigators to the 2011 death of her 4-month-old son. Police say both boys died from head trauma.
