TRAGEDY: JSS 3 Student Found Dead In Pool Of Water Around School

There was apprehension in Egor local government area of Edo State yesterday when a JSS 3 student of Useh Secondary School, simply identified as Osamudiamen was found dead in a pool of water around the school.
When the news of his death came to the authorities of the school, both students and teachers raced to the scene to discover the lifeless body.
A source at the school said that it happened at about 9am after six of the students left the school premises.
“Nobody knew where they went to. It was later that people started shouting, saying they saw one boy who drowned inside the water.

“So, we rushed down to rescue him but by the time we got there, some people had brought him out of the water but he was already dead. They said when they got to the water which gathered after it rained two days ago, the boy jumped inside to swim and drowned.
“Others ran away and went to call people to help but before they could rescue him he was dead already,” the source narrated.
When journalists visited the school, there was confusion as the school authority made frantic efforts to take the corpse to the mortuary while they tried to reach the parents of the deceased.
Some of the teachers who craved anonymity, expressed shock, wondering what would have made the students leave the school premises when they were supposed to be in class that morning.