Police van driving against traffic kills final-year UNIPORT student

A police van driving against traffic has crushed to death a final-year student of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Edah Oghenekevwe.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the van, with number plate, NPF1791D, which was driven by a policeman, identified as Inspector John Kanu, crushed Oghenekevwe on Sunday at the Assemblies of God Church Junction, Alakahia, Port Harcourt.

According to eyewitnesses, the van was moving against the traffic when it ran into the deceased, who was said to be in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and was returning from church.

Our correspondents gathered that Oghenekevwe was standing by the roadside at the junction, when the van swerved and crushed him.

It was learnt that the student was thereafter rushed to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital where he died.

The policemen, when contacted by the family, were said to have denied involvement in the

 accident.

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