Commercial sex worker strangled to death by unknown assailants in Delta

A commercial sex worker, simply identified as Miss Confidence, plying her trade at a popular brothel in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, was Thursday night stabbed and strangled to death by yet-to-be-identified assailants.

The deceased, t was gathered, was found dead in her room in the brothel after she failed to show up to join her colleagues to scout for customers.

The development caused pandamonium in the area as panic-stricken colleagues of the deceased are said to have fled the area

“Her colleagues were waiting for her outside as they were looking for customers but they didn’t see her. They now went to knock at her door and it was when they opened the door that they found her dead in her room,” a source who craved anonymity, said

Contacted yesterday, Police Public Relations Officer of the State Command, Mr. Bright Edafe confirmed the incident saying, “She was stabbed in the stomach and strangled.

He said the police had commenced an investigation into the matter, adding that no arrest has so far been made.