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Cosmas Chukwu
While the people of the university community of UNN enjoyed their Sunday,tragedy struck at Akpabio hostel leading to a pandemonium following the sound of an explosion. The explosion happened precisely in room 106 of the said hostel and came reportedly from a leaky gas cylinder.
The victims were reportedly trying to cook with the faulty cylinder . University sources disclosed that there is a rule against cooking in the hostel which they victims flouted by smuggling in and using their gas cooker and stove to cook inside the hostel.
The victims who were two undergraduates of the university, received third degree burns had to be moved from the the UNN Medical centre to the Traumatic centre of the National Orthopaedic Hospital by their parents.
Confirming the the accident to newsmen in Nsukka today, the Vice Chancellor Prof Charles Igwe regretted the incident pointing out that he set up a committee to undertake door to door search of the hostels to fish out defaulters of the rule prohbiting cooking in hostels and charged that culprits would be sent off campus where they would be free to cook on their own.
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