The University of Nigeria, Nsukka has been thrown into
mourning following the death of some students who lost
their lives in a horror road smash.
The students as gathered by liveschoolnews.com.ng
were traveling home after the University authorities
ordered them out of hostels.
It would be recalls that the University was suddenly shut
down on Monday, a move believed to have been aimed
at averting a planned riot by the students who had
suffered acute water scarcity for over three weeks.
The gory incident occurred at the Nsukka-9th Mile
Express way.
Although the Enugu State Police Command put the
death figure at three, eyewitness account said the
number is higher.
In a statement by the spokesman of the Enugu State
Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, he said
“three persons have been confirmed dead while five
others sustained various degrees of injuries”.
He added that “the auto crash, involves a diesel truck
with registration number AWK 311 XB, which is believed
to have lost control as a result of suspected brake
failure and had hit two buses with registration numbers
UWN 406 XA and UWN 57 XA and also a motorcycle.
“The injured are being attended to at our Saviour
Hospital, 9th Mile corner Ngwo, while the dead bodies
are also deposited at the same hospital mortuary”.
A student, who was traveling when the accident
occurred blamed the University authority for the
development.
“It was very sad to see our fellow students die like that;
we were chased out of school and now they have also
been forced out of the world. This would not have
occurred if we were not ordered out of school”, he
lamented.
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