By Michael Chukwuebuka, Reporting
Tragedy struck on Good Friday as a 25-year-old student of Claratian University of Nigeria, Owerri, Imo State, Suel Ambrose, slumped and died while playing the role of Biblical Peter during the activities to mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Ambrose, said to be a first-year student of Philosophy from Benue State, died on the spot, throwing the student community in mourning.
Some panic, amid attempts to revive him followed among the seminarians and passersby.
Speaking to journalists, one of the students said: “He was playing the role of the biblical Peter in the dream to demonstrate how Peter cut the ear of one of the Roman soldiers who came to arrest Christ and Jesus fixed the ear and as the drama was going on he slumped and died.
“So, the young man fell on the floor and started bleeding. We took him to our school hospital and the doctors did their best to revive him, but he was not responding.
“We took him to the Federal Medical Centre in Owerri and that was where he was certified dead.
“The drama was in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in respect to the Easter celebration.
“He was born in 1997. He is a year-one student and had the dream of becoming a priest in the Catholic church.”
The priest in charge of Students Affairs in the university, Fr Chukwuemeka Iheme, told journalists that the institution would brief the public after the “authority gives us permission to do so.”
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