BREAKING NEWS:3 UNN students die in auto crash

Firstclass newsline learnt that several students of the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka, lost their lives in a multiple road accident on
Tuesday evening.
Firstclass newsline learnt that the concerned students were traveling
home after the university authorities directed them to embark on a
compulsory two-week break.
Although the UNN management had described the closure as a
"mid-semester break," it was learnt that the school was closed to
avert a riot planned by the students to press home their anger at the
lack of electricity and water in their hostels.
The students were directed to vacate their hostels before 6pm on Tuesday.
However, some of the students who were aboard a commercial mass
transit bus met their untimely death along the Nsukka-9th Mile express
way.
As of the time of filing this report on Wednesday, there was confusion
over the actual number of students that died in the accident.
Unconfirmed eyewitness accounts suggest that about 20 students
perished in the accident, but the Enugu State Police Command said
three undergraduates died.
Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, Ebere
Amaraizu, in a statement made available to journalists, said apart
from the three who lost their lives, five other students sustained
injuries in the incident.
Amaraizu said, "Three persons have been confirmed dead while five
others sustained various degrees of injuries."
"The injured are being attended to at Our Saviour Hospital, 9th Mile
Corner, Ngwo, while the dead bodies are also deposited at the same
hospital mortuary," he added.
The police spokesman went ahead to explain the cause of the accident.
"The auto crash involved a diesel truck with number plate AWK 311 XB,
which is believed to have lost control as a result of suspected brake
failure and hit two buses with number plates UWN 406 XA and UWN 57 XA
and also a motorcycle," according to him.
Before they were ordered to vacate the school on Tuesday, the students
had planned to embark on a demonstration over the lack of electricity
and water in their hostels.
Firstclass newsline learnt that the planned demonstration was to take
place within the week.
A student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, had told a source
that there had been acute water scarcity, and no power supply in their
hostels for a very long time.
A statement issued by the university management, and signed by its
Chief Public Relations Officer, Okwun Omeaku, had directed the
students to vacate the school with immediate effect.
Firstclassnewsline.net