Three students of the Taraba State
University lost their lives when they were hit by falling trees during a
rainstorm at the Bouba Njidda National Wild Life Park in Cameroon.
This was diclosed by The Deputy Registrar, Information and
Publication of the university, Malam Sanusi Sa’ad on Wednesday.
Sa’ad in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Jalingo said that the incident occurred on April 16 during a devastating
rainstorm at about 3:15 p.m.
He said that the students were 400 level students of the
Biological Science Department of the university on a research trip to the
neighboring Cameroon.
The spokesman identified the dead students as Nancy Sam-Achak,
Grace Thomas and Yusuf Mohammed, the president of the department’s students’
association.
Sa’ad also
disclosed that the
Head of the Biological Science Department, Dr Robert Houmso, who was also in
the trip and 16 other students were injured during the incident.
He said that
all the injured people were currently receiving treatment at the Garoua
Hospital in Cameroun.
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