Gunmen invade ESUT hostel, shoot 3 students

Armed bandits on Friday invaded a students’ hostel in 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.

According to a DailyPost report, 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”.

His words:“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”.

Sources disclose that the Unique Hostel where the shooting took place and other hostels within the Agbani Permanent site of the university, have been placed under security watch as there are suspicions 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.