Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Three
people including a school principal have been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly
tying two students to makeshift crucifixes and flogging them for coming late to
school, a police spokesman told CNN.
The pupils were being flogged by a teacher
in front of their school Wednesday morning in the remote town of Ayetoro, Ogun
State, northwest of Lagos.
"They were tied to a wooden trees made to look
like a crucifix when a policeman on patrol saw them.
They told the principal
and the school proprietor to untie them and they refused. They even beat one of
the people who intervened," Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun State police spokesman
told CNN.The state's police command said it
was investigating the case and said the school's principal, owner, and a
teacher have been charged with assault and intention to cause grievous bodily
harm.
CNN could not immediately reach the
school authorities for comments.
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