By Our Reporter<\/p>\n
\u00a0Final year students and teachers including corp members escaped death as the classrooms the students where they were writing WAEC Examinations collapsed on them during a heavy rainfall which was accompanied by wind storm at Government Secondary School Namnai in Gassol local government area, Taraba state.<\/p>\n
The students and Teachers including supervisors and corps members serving in the school were trapped in the collapsed Classrooms and it took residents hours to rescued them.<\/p>\n
Many of the students Including males and females sustained various degrees of injuries while some had fracture on their legs,hands and arms.<\/p>\n
A resident, Alhaji DanAzumi Lauris told Journalists in a Telephone interview that it was the second set of the students that the classrooms collapsed on them as the first set had finished their exams and left.<\/p>\n
He said the incident occurred at about 6pm Wednesday few minutes after the students started writing the exams when heavy rainfall accompanied by wind storm started in the town.<\/p>\n
Danazumi, stated that the injured students, Teachers and corp members were moved to Primary Healthcare centre located few meters away from the school where they are now receiving treatment.<\/p>\n
He said apart from the school destroyed by the storm,many houses in the town were also destroyed by the storm.<\/p>\n
In Jalingo town many students went back home after 1am as a result of heavy rainfall which started when writing their exams and the rainfall lasted hours which held many of them back from going back home till after 1am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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