A 25-year-old woman is fighting for her life after being attacked and raped by five armed robbers who she believes to be herdsmen while she was at home in Gomoa Ojobi in the Central Region's Gomoa East District.

After attacking and raping the victim, the suspects also went to Awutu Ahentia and stole over 10 cows but failed to transport the cows to their destination due to hot chase by some other herdsmen.

The suspects fled from the Ojobi community leaving their sprinter bus with the registration number GG 2766-21 where some angry residents in the area vandalised the vehicle.

Speaking to Angel News Correspondent, Opanyin Darko, the Fulanis Chief of Gomoa Ojobi, Haskan Garu Imorro, described the incident as appalling and inhumane.

According to him, the suspects overpowered the woman’s husband by tying him with rope and took his wife to the bush nearby bush and raped her.