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Students Burn Down University Buildings in Nigeria

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Rampaging students burned down three university buildings in southern Nigeria after the university refused to re-enroll 11 students expelled for allegedly kidnapping the vice chancellor in 2000, police said Monday.

The students said the fires were set after police killed two students in a clash Friday after days of protest, newspapers reported.

In the clash, police used tear gas to force about 75 students to end a four-day occupation at Delta State University, state police commissioner John Ahmadu said.

The students returned after dark and set three buildings and a dozen vehicles ablaze, he said. The fires burned through Friday into Saturday.

The National Association of Nigerian Students, which coordinated the

protest, said two students were killed, 23 others hospitalized and one police officer wounded, the Guardian newspaper reported.

The students occupied the university Sept. 3 to protest the university's refusal to readmit 11 students who were expelled for allegedly kidnapping the university's vice chancellor and a professor in September 2000, said Ahmadu, who attended talks between protest leaders and university administrators last week.

The students were accused of kidnapping the university officials after the university tried to disband the student government and make students pay for damage caused during a previous protest.

The university has been shut down since Friday and is under police guard, Ahmadu said.

Source: Agencies

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