Harrowing death of UNILAG postgraduate students:Funmi died trying to save her friends –Sister

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The grieving sister of Funmi Odusina, who drowned with her friend, Shola Ogunmefun, at Elegushi Beach, Lagos on Sunday, has revealed that her sister sacrificed her life while attempting to save her friends. 

The sister, Miss Bukola Odusina, crying profusely, said Funmi died on the way to the hospital after her attempt to drag her friends from waves that wanted to drag them into the bottom of the ocean. Almost choking on her tears, Bukola said: “My sister was trying to rescue one of her friends, who were already drowning when she also got drowned.”
Trying to recollect the last moment of Funmi, Bukola said: “On that fateful day, my parents and I were at home when we received a phone call from her boss that someone called him from Island General Hospital that Funmi had been rushed to the emergency unit of the hospital. Immediately, my elder sister received the call, she called someone at her hostel in UNILAG who confirmed the incident.
That was how we dashed to the hospital only to be told that she had died and her body deposited at the hospital’s mortuary.” Bukola said that the management of the hospital allowed them to see Funmi’s remains. Bukola described her younger sister’s death as painful. She said: “Since the incident, our parents had not been stable.
Funmi was a brilliant student. She graduated from Covenant University two years ago. We are going to missed her.” When our correspondent visited the Faculty of Law, UNILAG, some of the colleagues of the deceased wore black clothes to mourn Funmi and Shola.
One of her colleagues, who pleaded anonymity, said: “They are supposed to be sitting for our postgraduate exams with us, but they are no more. As you can see, we are wearing black to mourn them. We are bereaved.” Another student, who identified herself simply as Gbemi, said: “I was supposed to go with them to the beach for the celebration, but because of the exams, I decided to stay back. We are mourning them. Whatever happened to our colleagues happened to everybody.
That was why you see us putting on black. We’re mourning them. We tried to persuade the school management to postpone the exam, but the school refused. We wouldn’t have sat for the exams. We miss them. Their death was a great loss to us and their family members.http://newtelegraphonline.com/harrowing-death-unilag-postgraduate-studentsfunmi-died-trying-save-friends-sister/