Students stabbed, shot to death during inter-house sports

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed that a secondary school student, SAMUEL ARCHIBONG, of Community Secondary School, Aka-Offot in Uyo has stabbed a schoolmate, JAMES ELIJAH, to death.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP ODIKO MACDON, disclosed this in a statement in Uyo today, where he explained that the incident occurred on Thursday, called on parents to inculcate good family culture in their children to avoid such occurrence.

In another development, a nine-year-old student of Agolo High School, Ikare Akoko, North East council area of Ondo State was reportedly shot dead during the school’s annual inter-house-sports competition on Thursday.

Reports had it that secondary school students from various parts of Akokoland attended the annual sports competition, where many old students were equally in attendance. It was alleged that two rival cult groups engaged themselves in supremacy battle hence the bloody clash during the competition.

The Divisional Police Officer in Ikare Akoko, OLATUJOYE AKINWANDE, who confirmed the incident, said the corpse of the student had been deposited at a mortuary while those injured were receiving treatment in the hospital.