students of the Enugu State University of Science
and Technology, ESUT, on Friday and shot three
students.
The affected students are currently undergoing
surgery at the University of Nigeria Teaching
Hospital, UNTH, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu where they
were rushed in the early hours of Saturday.
The Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer,
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.
A parent of one of the students disclosed that his
son who was affected by the attack was
undergoing surgery at the hospital by press time.
He said that the student was shot in the stomach
and it is 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 serious 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.
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