A primary school girl and a teacher were killed and
many other severely injured during the heavy rain on Monday at a school in Aregun
Ilara Village Ogijo, in Sagamu Local Government Area of
Ogun State.
The teacher and the 10-year-old girl were killed by
thunder, after the storm ripped off the roof of the classroom in where they
hid.
The victim, identified as Fabian Lawal, was a primary five pupil. She sustained injury but died before she could be rushed to a nearby hospital. Three other teachers also sustained injury and are now in coma at
at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Shagamu.
The victim, identified as Fabian Lawal, was a primary five pupil. She sustained injury but died before she could be rushed to a nearby hospital. Three other teachers also sustained injury and are now in coma at
at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Shagamu.
A resident in the area said: “The students and their teachers were all outside the classroom, believing was they were save, but unfortunately the wind pulled down the school roof and it landed it exactly where the
pupils and their teachers were hiding.”
Pupils who did not followed their teachers when they were taking others to a safe place, where the ones who ran into the community to call some elders about those trapped under the uprooted roof.
The resident said that the structure of the school
was weak because it had been built since 1955.
When our correspondent visited the school bags and shoes of the students littered the scene of the incident. As some sympathizer were seen trooping to the school to catch a glimpse and the extent of the
damage done to the school.
Mrs. Olushola Lawal, mother of the girl who died, said amidst tears: “When my daughter was leaving for school on Monday morning, I never knew that would be the last time I’d see her. I was inside the room sleeping when her younger sister, rushed in, crying at the same time shouting mummy! Mummy! Fabian is dead. When I got to my daughters’ school, I met a crowd. I
went straight to her class only to be told that she has been rushed to the hospital. I left immediately to the hospital. It was there I was told she had died before she was taken to the hospital.
“Before she left home that fateful day with her
younger sister, she promised to take care. She also promised to buy me car and build house for me and their father when she grows up.”
When our correspondent visited the school bags and shoes of the students littered the scene of the incident. As some sympathizer were seen trooping to the school to catch a glimpse and the extent of the
damage done to the school.
Mrs. Olushola Lawal, mother of the girl who died, said amidst tears: “When my daughter was leaving for school on Monday morning, I never knew that would be the last time I’d see her. I was inside the room sleeping when her younger sister, rushed in, crying at the same time shouting mummy! Mummy! Fabian is dead. When I got to my daughters’ school, I met a crowd. I
went straight to her class only to be told that she has been rushed to the hospital. I left immediately to the hospital. It was there I was told she had died before she was taken to the hospital.
“Before she left home that fateful day with her
younger sister, she promised to take care. She also promised to buy me car and build house for me and their father when she grows up.”
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