13 students killed as cultists invade Kogi varsity in reprisal attacks

Students of the Kogi State University, Anyigba, are currently in panic mode as about 13 students were killed by unidentified assailants believed to the members of a secret cult.

According to reports, the killings were reprisals attacks undertaken by one of the cults whose leader, a student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, was murdered by another cult linked to the university.

The KSU killings, started last Friday when nine students, including a 200 level female student and her boyfriend, were killed on the campus and at different areas of the town.

Some of the victims who were attacked on Stadium Road and Our Lady Fatima’s Lodge, were brutally murdered and their body dismembered by their assailants.

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Sources in the school also hinted that injured students were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, while many others have fled the town for fear of being killed.

The Commissioner of Police in Kogi State, Hakeem Busari, who confirmed the incident, said that three students were killed in the attacks.

Busari, who revealed that no arrest had been made yet, said that crack detectives had been drafted into the school to make arrests and to put an end to the killings.

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