Tragedy: JSS 3 student hacks man to death in Cross River

By Emma Una

CALABAR—A Junior Secondary School pupil successful Ugboro Secondary School successful Bekwara Local Government Area of Cross River State, identified arsenic Ogbeche has hacked a 23-year aged antheral to death.

The incidental happened successful Ugboro astatine the adjacent of schoolhouse connected Tuesday, erstwhile Ogbeche and different pupil whose sanction was fixed arsenic Nicholas were engaged successful a combat and the deceased known arsenic Oshen went to abstracted them.

According to an oculus witness, Lizzy, portion Oshen was separating the fight, Ogbeche took offence that Oshen was siding his hostile and near the combat to prime a pestle utilized successful pounding nutrient and struck Oshen connected the caput causing him to collapse.

“When helium picked up the pestle, radical were shouting, asking him to driblet it but helium did not listen. He went up to deed Oshen connected the caput with it. You cognize the pestles we usage present are precise dense not similar the ones you radical usage successful the town, that was wherefore it could inflict terrible harm to the caput with conscionable 1 strike,” Lizzy told Vanguard

She said Oshen did not dice connected the spot but was rushed to a infirmary astatine Ogoja, wherever helium died aforesaid Tuesday night.

“Oshen’s begetter known arsenic Oshen Ushaka was 1 of the aboriginal affluent men we had present successful Bekwara. He passed connected immoderate years backmost and his children are the ones occupying his compound.”

She said Ogbeche has a grounds of regular fights and, immoderate times, helium attacked his chap students with machete but determination had been nary casualty until the Tuesday incident.

It was gathered that the assailant was arrested by the constabulary and is presently astatine the Ogoja prison.

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