An Assistant Director attached to the State House Abuja, in charge of administration, Laetitia Naankang Dagan, has been killed by yet-to-be-identified assailants.

Ms. Dagan from Plateau State was said to have been killed in her apartment in Galadimawa, Abuja, on Monday evening shortly after she returned from work.

The 47-year , worked in her office on Monday till 8pm, but by 11pm, she was gruesomely murdered in her apartment located at Lokogoma, an outskirt of the Abuja by unknown persons,” the statement said.

A State House statement confirmed the development, quoting the Permanent Secretary, Jalal Arabi, as mourning the deceased.

Arabi was further quoted as telling her parents during a condolence visit that “the Police will fish out the killers of Laetitia and the law will take its course.”