An unidentified lecturer of the Federal University of Agriculture on Friday allegedly crushed two male students of the university with his car at Isolu, about two kilometers to the institution’s permanent site in Alabata, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The incident sparked a riot as students
of the institution took to the streets in anger at the killing of their
colleagues by the unidentified lecturer. He was said to be driving the
Pathfinder jeep that crushed the two undergraduates.
The unidentified lecturer said to be
attached to the institution’s Department of Water Resources Management
reportedly fled the scene immediately the accident occurred to escape
being mobbed by the angry students.
An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said
the driver of the jeep lost control of the vehicle before it rammed
into the students, who were walking by the side of the road, killing
them on the spot.
Other FUNAAB students allegedly set the
SUV ablaze after the driver had escaped and barricaded the roads leading
to the university campus.
The students also defied pleas by the policemen deployed in the area not to take the laws into their hands.
FUNAAB Public Relations Officer, Mr.
Kola Adepoju who confimed the killing of the two students, said the
university had declared Monday, March 18, 2013 as a lecture-free day to
mourn the dead students.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident on the telephone.
He said the bodies of the victims had been deposited at a mortuary.
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