ESUT students escape death in Enugu

TRAGEDY was averted in Enugu, the Enugu State capital, on Thursday, when students of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) narrowly escaped being burnt to death in a luxury bus in which they were travelling.

It was learnt that the students were returning from their Agbani campus of the university when the bus caught fire, few metres away from the Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS), Enugu and the Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA), Enugu.

An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that it was the timely alert by detached policemen from Independence Layout, Enugu, that saved the lives of the students.

One of the survivors, who simply gave her name as Vivian, narrated how the security operatives suddenly stopped the driver, raising the alarm that fire was oozing out from the vehicle.

“We were saved by God through the policemen who were coming behind us. They stopped our vehicle and shouted to us to come down quickly. We jumped out. I thank God nobody died in the inferno,” she said.

When the Nigerian Tribune visited the scene, scores of passers-by were seen thanking God for the safety of the students.

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