A female student of Community Secondary
School, Adazi-Ani in Anaocha Local Government
Area of Anambra State who was sent out of
school for not paying school fees was on
Monday crushed to death by a truck.
The truck said to belong to a soft drink
company was said to have lost control as a
result of its brake failure.
An eyewitness, Mr. Abuchi Okwara, told Punch
that the JSS2 student whose name was given as
Chinyere was sent out of the school by the
school’s authorities over non-payment of school
fees.
He said,
“They were three that were sent out of
the school for not paying school fees.
But Chinyere was the one that was killed
by the truck”.The incident took place at
about 9 O’Clock near that bus-stop”. It
was while they were heading home to get
money which they were instructed to pay
in the bank that she was killed while
others escaped by the whiskers.The
vehicle cut off her head.When contacted
on the telephone, the Police Public
Relations Officer in the state, Mrs Nkeiru
Nwode said “our men are on ground
there now and they know what to do”.