At least three students have been stabbed on Friday, March 17, 2017 at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) following a clash between some students of University of Ghana, Legon and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
A UCC student is reportedly paralysed after he was severally stabbed while trying to enter his hall from night studies.
An eye witness narrated that some residents of Commonwealth Hall and Unity Hall who had been invited for a programme at ATL Hall ended up attacking one another after a misunderstanding.
Although, he did not know the true cause of the misunderstanding, the witness said the incident became intense after some residents of ATL hall also joined the skirmishes.
Several properties worth thousands of cedis belonging to Oguaa hall had been destroyed, the eye witness said.
The hall’s bus and vehicles belonging to some lecturers were also vandalised.
Meanwhile, a contingent of police and military personnel have been dispatched to the campus to stop any possible reprisal and to maintain peace.
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