Authorities of University of Benin have demanded for the arrest and prosecution of those behind the murder of one of their students, 22-year-old Miss VERA UWAILA OMOZUWA, who was gang-raped and clubbed to death by unidentified persons.

The incident took place in the night of Wednesday last week, inside the Ikpoba Hill branch of a Church in Benin, Edo state.

The university in a statement yesterday said it shares in the pain of the family of the victim.

Already, Governor GODWIN OBASEKI has ordered security agency to fish out the perpetrators of the heinous act.

The 100-Level student of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences in the institution, was said to have gone to the church to read when her assailants pounced on her and hit her with a fire extinguisher after raping her.