A BUGANDI Secondary School
student is dead and three others have been locked up in the Lae Police cells.
According to Police reports, last Friday a group of drunk Bugandi Secondary School students ganged up on a lone fellow student from the same school in a PMV Bus at Eriku Shopping Centre bus stop and the deceased went to help the lone student who was his cousin and was stabbed by one of the attackers in his back.
He was rushed to Angau Hospital but died soon after due to loss of blood. Police named the deceased as Daniel Passingan, 19, of mix New Ireland and East New Britain parentage.
He was a Grade 11 student at Bugandi Secondary School.
Two suspects were chased by the public at Eriku, captured and handed over to police. They were locked up the same day for their safety at the Lae Police cells.
However, some hours later police learnt of the death and both suspects were locked and were refused bail and visits. A third person who was suspected of spying on the condition of the deceased was captured by the relatives and friends of the deceased and handed over to police to investigate the reasons of his presence at the hospital.
Lae police officers working on the case will hold him in the cells and question him until they are satisfied as to whether he was involved in the killing or not.
At the outbreak of the news of the student’s killing, students who have Facebook
accounts posted hate mail on their walls saying that Lae Secondary School were murderers.
It was thought that Lae Secondary students were involved in the killing but eyewitnesses and the general public who gave chase to the suspects say it was Bugandi Secondary School students who had killed one of their fellow students and this was also confirmed by the police.
The suspects were still in their Bugandi School uniforms when police arrested and photographed them and locked them up after learning of the death of the victim.
Police also confirmed that it was not a fight between two schools but occult movements within student groups of Bugandi and the deceased probably became a victim when he was trying to help his cousin student.
Meanwhile, Lae Secondary School principal Christopher Raymond has appealed to Facebook users from tainting his school’s name without proof and to find out factual information before posting hate mails.
Mr Raymond said he was tipped off that there was to be a big school fight last Friday and he suspended classes at his school telling his students that there was to be a big special meeting for the teachers, but all he was doing was putting into place a preventive measure.
“Lae Secondary will be closed for an indefinite period. Basically our school year is over even though it was not one of our students that was killed or allegedly involved in the killing but the safety of our students are paramount,” he said.
He told the ‘Post-Courier’ that he has written a letter to Education authorities in Lae and Morobe Province and is urging them to get serious about the issue and do something about it.
According to Police reports, last Friday a group of drunk Bugandi Secondary School students ganged up on a lone fellow student from the same school in a PMV Bus at Eriku Shopping Centre bus stop and the deceased went to help the lone student who was his cousin and was stabbed by one of the attackers in his back.
He was rushed to Angau Hospital but died soon after due to loss of blood. Police named the deceased as Daniel Passingan, 19, of mix New Ireland and East New Britain parentage.
He was a Grade 11 student at Bugandi Secondary School.
Two suspects were chased by the public at Eriku, captured and handed over to police. They were locked up the same day for their safety at the Lae Police cells.
However, some hours later police learnt of the death and both suspects were locked and were refused bail and visits. A third person who was suspected of spying on the condition of the deceased was captured by the relatives and friends of the deceased and handed over to police to investigate the reasons of his presence at the hospital.
Lae police officers working on the case will hold him in the cells and question him until they are satisfied as to whether he was involved in the killing or not.
At the outbreak of the news of the student’s killing, students who have Facebook
accounts posted hate mail on their walls saying that Lae Secondary School were murderers.
It was thought that Lae Secondary students were involved in the killing but eyewitnesses and the general public who gave chase to the suspects say it was Bugandi Secondary School students who had killed one of their fellow students and this was also confirmed by the police.
The suspects were still in their Bugandi School uniforms when police arrested and photographed them and locked them up after learning of the death of the victim.
Police also confirmed that it was not a fight between two schools but occult movements within student groups of Bugandi and the deceased probably became a victim when he was trying to help his cousin student.
Meanwhile, Lae Secondary School principal Christopher Raymond has appealed to Facebook users from tainting his school’s name without proof and to find out factual information before posting hate mails.
Mr Raymond said he was tipped off that there was to be a big school fight last Friday and he suspended classes at his school telling his students that there was to be a big special meeting for the teachers, but all he was doing was putting into place a preventive measure.
“Lae Secondary will be closed for an indefinite period. Basically our school year is over even though it was not one of our students that was killed or allegedly involved in the killing but the safety of our students are paramount,” he said.
He told the ‘Post-Courier’ that he has written a letter to Education authorities in Lae and Morobe Province and is urging them to get serious about the issue and do something about it.
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