At least twenty students of Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo, have been left hospitalized, after a tear gas attack in the school on Tuesday morning.

The tear gas was due to a morning drill exercise of the mobile policemen of the 39 Squadron Division located opposite the school along Osogbo-Ikirun road in the state capital.

According to a teacher, who pleaded anonymity, some of the students collapsed as a result of the intensity of the tear gas inside the school.

The other students have been asked to go home to avoid a breakdown of law and order.

“13 of the students were taken to a private hospital behind the school, while 7 or 8 others were taken to Uniosun teaching hospital for treatment. Some of them have been stabilized while others are still under watch”

A mother, Mrs Adeola Fatima, who rushed to the school to look for her daughter, identified as Hikmah, said she was told she has been taken to a hospital for treatment.


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