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Tale of horror: Five college students in hospital after night of gang-rape terror

The hostel, which they had rented outside their college, is about 100 metres from an Administration Police camp. [Courtesy]

Five students from a college in Embu County are recuperating at Embu Level Five Teaching and Referral Hospital after they were raped and their property stolen by a gang on Thursday night.

The gangsters said to number about 10, broke into Castle Hostels in Bondeni Estate, Embu town where girls from Embu College were sleeping and demanded they open doors or they will set them on fire.

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