Three students of the
Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Agbani are on danger
list of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH).
They
were Friday night shot and wounded by suspected armed bandits who invaded their
hostel.
The
affected students are currently undergoing intensive surgery at the hospital
where they were rushed in the early hours of Saturday.
One
of the students was shot in the stomach and it was suspected that some pellets
of the bullet were lodged in his abdomen for which doctors are battling to
remove.
The
two other victims were also undergoing surgery at the hospital while efforts
were being made to contact their parents.
The
Unique Hostel where the incident occurred and other hostels within the Agbani
Permanent site of the university, according to sources, have been placed under
security watch as it was suspected that the gunmen could be members of a secret
cult.
To
forestall a reprisal attack, the source said, the management had taken measures
to beef up security at the hostels with plain-clothe policemen deployed to
strategic locations.
Police
spokesman, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the armed attack said that
preliminary investigations revealed that the gunmen could be “student
robbers”, assuring that the police would do everything possible to get to
the root of the matter.
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