Over 20 Travelling UNN Students Die In Car Accident.

TWENTY college students of the College of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, have been feared lifeless in a a number of street accident late on Tuesday, eyewitnesses mentioned on Wednesday. Our correspondent learnt that the victims met their deaths on the Nsukka-ninth Mile Expressway where as travelling to their houses in a business mass transit bus after the UNN authorities had directed the scholars to embark on a obligatory two-week break.An announcement by the college’s Chief Public Relations Officer, Okwun Omeaku, had directed the scholars to vacate the college with quick impact.Though the UNN administration had described the closure as a “mid-semester break”, college students informed our correspondent that the varsity was shut to avert an motion stated to have been deliberate by the scholars to protest the shortage of electrical energy and water of their hostels.The scholars had been directed to vacate theirhostels earlier than 6:00 pm on Tuesday.Although the Enugu State Police Command stated solely three undergraduates died within the accident, eyewitnesses stated no fewer than 20 college students of the UNN perished within the accident.Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, Ebere Amaraizu, in an announcement made obtainable to journalists, mentioned other than the three who misplaced their lives, 5 different college students sustained accidents within the accident. Amaraizu mentioned, “Three individuals have been confirmed lifeless whereas 5 others sustained varied levels of accidents.
The injured are being attended to at Our Saviour Hospital, ninth Mile Nook, Ngwo, whereas the lifeless our bodies are additionally deposited on the similar hospital mortuary.“The auto crash concerned a diesel truck with registration quantity AWK 311 XB, which is believed to have misplaced management because of suspected brake failure and hit two buses with registration numbers UWN 406 XA and UWN fifty seven XA and likewise a motorbike.”Earlier than the closure of their faculty on Tuesday, our correspondent learnt that the scholars had deliberate to embark on an illustration over the shortage of electrical energy and water of their hostels. It was learnt that the deliberate demonstration was to happen throughout the week. A scholar, who pleaded anonymity, had advised our correspondent that there had been acute water shortage and 0 energy provide of their hostels for a really very long time.