Three students of the Taraba State University lost their lives and others injured after a heavy rainstorm wreaked havoc in the Bouba Njidda National Wild Life Park of Cameroon.
The students were killed after they were hit by falling trees during a storm.
Other students sustained injuries.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Deputy Registrar, Information and Publication of the university, Sanusi Sa’ad, said the incident occurred on April 16 during a devastating rainstorm around 3:15pm.
Sa’ad said the students were 400 level students of the Biological Science Department of the university on a research trip to neighbouring Cameroon.
The spokesman named the dead students as Nancy Sam-Achak, Grace Thomas and Yusuf Mohammed, the president of the department’s students’ association.
He said the Head of the Biological Science Department, Robert Houmso, who was also on the trip and 16 other students, were injured during the incident.
Sa’ad said all the injured people were currently receiving treatment at the Garoua Hospital in Cameroon.