Photo: Suspected rapist and ritualist burnt in Delta state

In what is gradually turning Ughelli, Delta State, into a town of rapists, barely five days after a sales girl was raped and bludgeoned to death at Afiesere community, another sales girl, identified as Charity, was raped and then beaten with a mallet, on Monday.

The incident occurred inside a shop where the victim sells fish feeds at Ekuigbo, Ughelli. Monday's case was the third in five days after the wife of a popular hotelier was attacked and raped inside her shop along Ekerejebor Road, Ughelli, last Friday. .

It was gathered that Charity, who was at the point of death, was discovered naked. Sympathisers rushed her to Ughelli Central Hospital. The person had raped, gagged and tied her, leaving her for dead, before she was discovered. The suspect was caught today and burnt alive.