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.
He could not say if any arrest had been made but
he said that the command was already on top of
the situation and would give further details after
the ongoing investigations.
“From what we gathered when the gunmen
attacked some students at the ESUT Unique
Lodge, which is mainly Boys Hostel, there was a
stiff resistance by the students who succeeded in
arresting one of the gunmen. The arrested
gunman alerted his armed colleagues who
returned to the hostel and began shooting
indiscriminately during which three of the
students were shot and wounded,” the police
spokesman said.
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