No fewer than seven persons have been confirmed dead at the ongoing recruitment of the Nigeria Immigration Service in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
The death of the seven applicants whose names have not been released was said to have occurred during a stampede.
Reports from various centres across the country have it that thousands of youths turned up for the exercise and that the turn out for the aptitude test was massive.
In Lagos, the officials were said to have fought hard to cope with the number of applicants that showed up for the aptitude test.
It was gathered that several persons who sustained various degrees of injury have been rushed to the hospital at the Abuja Centre.
The Federal Road Safety Commission has joined officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service in attending to the victims.
There has been no official response to the development from the Iimmigration Service as at press time.