A university in Nigeria has confirmed an incident where a final year student was attacked and set ablaze for refusing to join a secret society, known as cults.
The student was rescued and is being treated at hospital with serious burn wounds.
On Monday, administrators at Osun State University said that they were working with police to ensure the suspected cultists are arrested.
The university discovered the incident after the student failed to show up for exams. They contacted his parents who said he had been attacked and was being treated at hospital.
Eyewitnesses said they heard the student shout that he would not join the cult before he started screaming for help.
Violence around the cults has been the cause of a lot of concern in Nigerian universities and some schools.
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WHO probing mysterious deaths in northern South Sudan
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is investigating the deaths of nearly 100 people who succumbed to a yet to be identified disease in Fangak, Jonglei State, in South Sudan.
Last week, the ministry of health reported that an unknown disease had killed dozens of people in the area which is one of the worst hit by recent flooding.
A local health official said initial samples collected in the area returned negative test results for cholera.
“We decided to send a rapid response team to go and do risk assessment and investigation; that is when they will be able to collect samples from the sick people – but provisionally the figure that we got was that there were 89 deaths,” WHO’s Sheila Baya told the BBC.
She said Fangak area was not reachable by land due to flooding and the team was waiting for a helicopter to return them to the capital, Juba, on Wednesday.
Source: BBC
