The incident, which started at about 7a.m continued into the afternoon, with properties worth millions of Naira destroyed in the process.
Some students said an earlier attack on a former Niger Delta militant by a local cult group on campus caused the clash. The ex-militant reportedly mobilized his boys to the university to avenge a humiliating experience as early as 7am.
So many of the students on campus were sending distress calls to their parents and guardians, while a few other fled the campus as police did not arrive on time to stop the carnage.
There are about 200 ex-militants on admission at Igbinedion University under the Federal Government’s amnesty and retraining programme.
The identity of the dead students is not yet known.
