Student Dies During Reenactment of Jesus’ Crucifixion in Imo

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A 25-year-old undergraduate has died while acting in a recreation of Jesus’s crucifixion, with the audience thinking it was part of the drama.

The victim, Sule Ambrose, was a Philosophy student at the Clariantian University Seminary in Nekede and was also training to be a priest.

Ambrose took the part of Simon Peter, Jesus’s most important Disciple, dressing up in a long white toga for the Good Friday reenactment.

But he slumped on the ground during the performance and began bleeding.

He however did not receive immediate attention as onlookers thought it was part of the reenactment.

An eyewitness Micheal Eluwa said, “Initially when it happened we thought it was a joke, and that it was part of the drama. 

“It was when he could not get up that was when we knew it was a serious matter and he was rushed to a school hospital. 

“Later, when the case became worse, he was taken to a nearby Federal Medical Center. It was from there we heard he could not survive it.”

The Seminary said the cause of Ambrose’s death remained entirely unknown.

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