Some youths in Ibadan on Tuesday protested at Oyo State Government Secretariat over the killing of a student by a stray bullet allegedly fired by a policeman.
The student, said to be writing the ongoing West African Examinations Council (WAEC) was hit by the stray bullet around Gbagi market road in the early hours of Tuesday.
It was gathered that the student was on his way to write the examination in company with his sibling and father when the incident occurred.
It was learnt that the stray bullet was fired by a police officer who was pursuing a suspect.
The victim was immediately rushed to Welfare Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Our correspondent reports that some angry residents protested against the killing of the student.
The protesters took the student’s lifeless body to the Oyo State Government Secretariat, calling on Governor Seyi Makinde to intervene.
