Following the heavy rain that fell across Lagos
State Tuesday, the accompanying lightning
struck dead a Senior Secondary School 3 student
of Muslim College, Oworonsoki.
There was wailing in the school when the incident
occurred.
The incident disrupted academic activities in the
school.
The name of the female student was simply given
as Celestina Farotide. Her school authorities
refused to comment on the issue and referred
journalists to the education district.
A student of the school, who craved anonymity,
told P.M.NEWS that the incident occurred around
8.00 am shortly after the morning assembly while
the students were still outside their classrooms.
Thunder and lightning erupted and waves of
shock swept through the school during which
Celestine was struck dead.
Teachers and students of the school have been
told not to speak to pressmen and no one is
talking.
Sister of the deceased, Idowu Adegite told
P.M.NEWS that they were called from the home
Tuesday that their sister fell down and that they
should come to Gbagaga General Hospital, saying
that on getting there, they met the 19-year old
girl dead.
She said they were told that she might have been
killed by lightning.
A community leader in the area, Mr. Babajide
Kabiawu told our reporter that there was
lightning around 8.00 am during the rainfall,
saying that a high tension poll was struck by the
lightning while several items were destroyed.
He stated that several passers-by at Olokomeji
area had to quickly drop their umbrellas when the
lightning struck as they felt some shocks in their
body.
According to him, what government should do is
to install anti-lightning equipment at the premises
of the school to prevent similar incident.
He said the school was close to the lagoon and
that it was over-populated, with about 150
students choked in a class, adding that the
school is also faced with the problem of flood.
--Kazeem Ugbodaga & Dedeigbo Ayodeji

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Anger of the gods, the guy don commit bad thing

This is really sad. That yesterday rain was something else