Stampede As UNIBEN Screens Fresh Student, One feared Dead Barely two weeks after about 19 persons died in stampedes across the country during recruitment exercise for employment into Nigerian Immigrations Service, News coming out of University Of Benin indicates there was another stampede this morning at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) during screening of fresh students. It was gathered that scores of students sustained varying and “very serious” degrees of injuries in the stampede, just as one was rumored dead. Eye witnesses said the stampede occurred when the students were attempting to force their way into the premises of the hall where the screening exercise was taking place, and UNIBEN security personnel forcefully closed the gate against them, forcing the surging students to fall, and hundreds of them marching on those on the ground. One of the applicants who gave her name simply as Osas for fear of been victimized, described what happened as “horrible and hellish.” “It was a terrible thing and so serious. It started when the students were attempting to enter the hall and the security men said no. It was then that some of the students attempted to force their way into the place and the security men forcefully closed the gates on them. That is how hundreds of them fell, some this side and others that side. “Those who got up marched on those still on the ground to get out of the confusion. Several people who were injured were rushed to the hospital, but am not sure anyone died, though many of them were seriously injured,” Osas said. Meanwhile the University’s Public Relations Officer, Barr. Harrison Osarenren, denied that nobody died at the screening The Nation Newspaper
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:40:49 +0000
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