Immigration Recruitment Tragedy: 3 Pregnant Women Die, 20 Others Injured In Benin
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Applicants at the Samuel Ogbemudia Sports Stadium in Benin city….
SaharaReporters
March 15, 2014
Three pregnant women participating in the Benin zone of the immigration recruitment exercises slumped and died immediately inside the main bowl of Samuel Ogbemudia stadium on Saturday.
The applicants had turned up for the exercise as early as 6am, but the screening couldn’t start till 2:15pm when some of the applicants started leaving after the stampede .
Trouble started around 10 am, when the immigration officials in charge of the screening lost control of the crowd prompting the soldiers on guard to start shooting sporadically in into the air.
Over twenty eight thousands applicants that took part in the one day exercise started running for safety that resulted in stampede.
As the time of filing this story over twenty persons are being revived at a nearby hospitals while the three pregnant women died before help came their way.
Some of the applicants who with our reporter condemned the way and manner the exercise is being conducted with the immigration officials in charge having no human feelings.
Mr Isaac, an applicant expressed shock over the inhuman way they were being treated by the recruiting officers.
“Can you imagine sir, this is 2: 10 pm, we are still loitering around with no concrete information from the recruiting officers.
“Oga, they should help ask the immigration officials, why the shooting. To organize these applicants is easy. Now, the shooting has caused big problem.
Now, the exercise is on hold.
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