Several UNN students feared dead in auto crash

This news was confirmed as stated by DAILY POST NEWSPAPER

The sudden closure of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, claimed

first casualties Tuesday evening as several students of the institution

lost their lives in a multiple road accident.

EG NIGERIA gathered that the students, who were traveling home

after the University authorities ordered them out of hostels, met their

untimely death 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.

EG NIGERIA 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.