At least one person was confirmed dead and another left in a coma when students of Ibadan City Academy, Eleta and Community Grammar School, Kudeti, both in Ibadan, engaged in a free-for-all yesterday.
The fracas left several people, including a school gateman injured, while eight vehicles in the premises of Community Grammar School and seven others at Yejide Girls Grammar School were damaged.
It was gathered that the fight had started since Monday when some students of Ibadan City Academy unleashed violence on Community Grammar School, Kudeti, injuring some students in the process.
As a result, a female student from the Community Grammar School reportedly invited the hoodlums from Popo area for a reprisal attack.
The hoodlums were said to have arrived at the school around 11.30am, demanding to see the school principal.
A report confirmed that the crisis was arrested by the police who came to the scene upon invitation and apprehended three of the miscreants that followed the students to the school and took them to Sango Police Station
In the course of interrogation, the police were said to have discovered a list from one of the hoodlums where names of students marked down for attack were scribbled.
The arrest and interrogation were, however, said to have ignited a fresh crisis yesterday. Students of Ibadan City Academy, in company of a number of hoodlums from Popoyemoja, again swooped on the school students who were just finishing their Biology practical examination.
Lucky school principals
The miscreants were mobilized in a convoy of motorbikes and caught both teachers and students of the school unawares. According to an eyewitness, they threw stones and used dangerous weapons to attack students, teachers and other staff of the school.
Besides beating one of the gatemen silly, five vehicles belonging to the school principal and teachers were vandalised during the clash and some others vandalized.
As at yesterday, police had arrested seven people, including two female students believed to be girlfriends to the hoodlums. Residents of the area also suffered some loss as their properties worth several millions of naira were damaged.
Only the prompt intervention of police team saved the duo of Messrs Gbadebo Akinlolu and Olagoke (principals of the two schools in the premises) from being burnt to death by the hoodlums, who set their offices ablaze with disused tyres.
One of the miscreants was equally stabbed in the armpit and belly and was said to have bled to death in a drainage near the scene of the fight and his corpse was later picked up by the police.
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