The students overpowered the security personnel attached to the facility and stormed the warehouse scrambling for the palliative
There is serious confusion Friday as some students of the Nasarawa state University Keffi, NSUK, were reportedly killed in a stampede while struggling for rice meant to be distributed as palliative by the state government.
The students are said to have allegedly broken into the warehouse where the food items were kept ready to be distributed by 9am this morning.
According eyewitnesses, the students overpowered the security personnel attached to the facility and stormed the warehouse scrambling for the palliative.
It was gathered that some students billed to benefit from the state government palliatives were issued with cards to admit them into the distribution venue yesterday.
It was also gathered that as early as 5am students had already taken over the arena and overpowered the security, broke into the warehouse resulting in the stampede.
Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filling in this report.
Details later.