A final year student of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, (FUTO) in Imo State, has died by drowning.

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Kester Gabriel, a 500 level Material and Metallurgical Engineering student, went swimming in the Otammiri river in Ihiagwa area of the state but drowned.
Kester had been on Industrial Training, IT, and only just returned to school on Sunday. He drowned three days later, on Wednesday, November 21.
His body has been recovered and deposited in the mortuary.
Friends have taken to Facebook to mourn him.

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