by Rachel Ogbu

Two students of the Federal University of Agriculture in Alabata, Abeokuta, Ogun State were allegedly run over by a university lecturers at Isolu, about two kilometers to the institution’s permanent site.

The lecturer who has not yet been identified is said to have fled the scene immediately the accident occurred leaving the students dead.

According to an anonymous eyewitness report, the lecturer lost control of the vehicle before it crashed into and killed the students, who were on the side-walk.

Reports claim the incident set off a riot and students took to the streets to protest the deaths. The lecturers reportedly from the institution’s Department of Water Resources Management was said to have been driving a Pathfinder jeep.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi said the bodies of the victims were now at a mortuary and FUNAAB Public Relations Officer,  Kola Adepoju announced that the university declared Monday, March 18, 2013 as a lecture-free day to mourn the dead students.

The Punch reports:

Other FUNAAB students allegedly set the SUV ablaze after the driver had escaped and barricaded the roads leading to the university campus.

The students also defied pleas by the policemen deployed in the area not to take the laws into their hands.

Meanwhile, a truck carrying granite on Thursday night crashed into 15 vehicles at Ota, Ogun State.

The truck is believed to have lost its brakes, after which the driver slammed into the vehicles.

None of the occupants of the vehicles was injured in the multiple crash.