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At least one person
was confirmed dead and another left in a coma when students of Ibadan
City Academy, Eleta and Community Grammar School, Kudeti, both in
Ibadan, engaged in a free-for-all yesterday.

The fracas left
several people, including a school gateman injured, while eight
vehicles in the premises of Community Grammar School and seven others
at Yejide Girls Grammar School were damaged.

NEXT gathered that
the fight had started since Monday when some students of Ibadan City
Academy unleashed violence on Community Grammar School, Kudeti,
injuring some students in the process.

As a result, a
female student from the Community Grammar School reportedly invited the
hoodlums from Popo area for a reprisal attack.

The hoodlums were said to have arrived at the school around 11.30am, demanding to see the school principal.

A report confirmed
that the crisis was arrested by the police who came to the scene upon
invitation and apprehended three of the miscreants that followed the
students to the school and took them to Sanyo police station.

In the course of
interrogation, the police were said to have discovered a list from one
of the hoodlums where names of students marked down for attack were
scribbled.

The arrest and
interrogation were, however, said to have ignited a fresh crisis
yesterday. Students of Ibadan City Academy, in company of a number of
hoodlums from Popoyemoja, again swooped on the school students who were
just finishing their Biology practical examination.

Lucky school principals

The miscreants were
mobilized in a convoy of motorbikes and caught both teachers and
students of the school unawares. According to an eyewitness, they threw
stones and used dangerous weapons to attack students, teachers and
other staff of the school.

Besides beating one
of the gatemen silly, five vehicles belonging to the school principal
and teachers were vandalised during the clash and some others
vandalized.

As at yesterday,
police had arrested seven people, including two female students
believed to be girlfriends to the hoodlums. Residents of the area also
suffered some loss as their properties worth several millions of naira
were damaged.

Only the prompt
intervention of police team saved the duo of Messrs Gbadebo Akinlolu
and Olagoke (principals of the two schools in the premises) from being
burnt to death by the hoodlums, who set their offices ablaze with
disused tyres.

One of the miscreants was equally stabbed in the armpit and belly
and was said to have bled to death in a drainage near the scene of the
fight and his corpse was later picked up by the police.