Four pregnant women and
fifteen other unidentified persons have been reportedly dead in Abuja, Minna,
Port Harcourt and Benin during a recruitment test organised by the Nigerian
Immigration Service to fill vacant positions in the agency.
The test, which held
nationwide yesterday, attracted thousands of applicants to the main bowl of the
National Stadium, Abuja.
Hundreds of others fainted
and were immediately rushed to different hospitals by security operatives who
were overwhelmed by the surging crowd of unemployed youths.
Authorities of the
National Hospital, Abuja have confirmed seven persons dead from the sixty seven
thousand Nigeria Immigration Service job applicants in the FCT.
The spokesman for the
hospital, Tayo Haastrup said five women and two men, were brought in dead and
that their bodies had been deposited at the mortuary.
He said thirty-five of the
seventy persons who were injured have been discharged.
In Port Harcourt, four people
have been confirmed dead following a stampede at the Libration Stadium venue of
an aptitude test for applicants into the Nigeria Immigration Service
A doctor at the Braithwaite
Memorial Hospital in Port Harcourt who spoke on condition of anonymity also
confirmed that four people have been treated and discharged while four others
are still receiving treatment.
Two of the patients
managed to speak to our correspondent on their ordeal.
Some candidates who took part in the recruitment test in
Port Harcourt said the arrangement was shoddy.
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