The Ministry of Training has expressed its profound condolences to the families of the three college students who tragically misplaced their lives throughout a taking pictures incident at Nkwanta within the Nkwanta North District of the Oti Area.
The three, all college students of the Nkwanta Senior Excessive College, have been stated to have been caught in a crossfire, following renewed tribal violence within the space.
A press release issued by the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry on Friday confirmed that two females, all day college students of Nkwanta Senior Excessive have been killed in a taking pictures incident on Thursday, June 26. Whereas one other scholar, a male was hit by a stray bullet on Friday, June 27.
All three deaths occurred inside the college premises, when the scholars have been caught within the crossfire of escalating communal tensions at Nkwanta.
The assertion proceed that, “The Ministry commiserates with all college students, their households, employees of Nkwanta SHS, and everybody affected by these mindless acts of violence inside the group.”
It stated the Ministry was deeply saddened to study of the tragic lack of lives of two feminine day college students by a taking pictures incident on Thursday, June 26, 2025, and a male scholar additionally hit by a stray bullet on Friday, June 27, 2025, on the Nkwanta Senior Excessive College because of the resurgence of a tribal battle at Nkwanta within the Oti Area.
In the meantime, the Minister, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has recommended the swift however obligatory determination taken by the GES and the Appearing Regional Director of Training, Oti Area to quickly shut
College and for arranging police escorts to make sure the secure passage of scholars to their houses.
He tasked the administration of the GES to proceed to carefully monitor developments to make sure the protection of scholars, employees and college property always.
“We look ahead to a fast and peaceable decision to the battle to allow college students return to a secure studying atmosphere,” the assertion indicated
BY TIMES REPORTER
