Logara Community in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, has been thrown into mourning following the gruesome murder of a pregnant woman in Awogwu Village, Chinwendu Amadi.

Kristina Reports checks reveal that Mrs. Amadi was reportedly raped and killed inside the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport (SMICA), Owerri by unidentified hoodlums.

This is just as youths of the airport’s host community under the auspices of Onyeaghalanwanneya Youths Movement (OYM) threatened to ground operations at the airport runway in protest if the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) does not do anything to improve security of the premises and stop attacks on the community members by hoodlums.

Kristina Reports gathered that the woman’s body was found weekend in the bushy premises of the airport near the runway.

According to the President General of Logara Community, Chief Martin Opara, the deceased, who was a petty trader inside the airport, closed shop on the evening of Thursday, October 16, 2024 and was pushing her wheelbarrow home with a cooler containing okpa that she was selling when she was waylaid on the bush path, where she was violently raped and stabbed severally and left naked in the bush dead with her five months’ unborn child.

It was learned that the woman must have been murdered by her assailants to cover their tracks lest she reveal their identities.

The development has since sparked outrage in the community and within the airport host community, with Chief Opara vowing that the community would not take the gruesome murder of their pregnant wife within the airport premises lying low.

“The security around the airport must explain to us what happened to the woman and expectant mother in the airport premises. They cannot amass our land and up till now there is no structure put there by the FAAN.”