Pandemonium broke out Thursday morning at Community Secondary School, Oroworukwo in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when an unidentified student allegedly opened a teargas canister in the classroom.
The video of the incident which went viral on social media, on Saturday, showed students and teachers running for their lives as they tried to escape the smoke from teargas.
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Some of the students, were seen in the video clip, jumping from the first floor of the two storey building housing the secondary school.
One student was heard screaming, ‘Blood of Jesus, Blood of Jesus,’ while another was heard asking ‘where is water?’
Reports said the teargas was brought to school by a 17-year-old SS2 student.
The teargas canister was said to have exploded and the sound sent students jumping down from the first floor.