Student dies during Good Friday ‘crucifixion re-enactment’

A Nigerian student has collapsed and died during a Good Friday crucifixion re-enactment – while the audience thought it was “part of the drama”.

A student collapsed and died during a re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion on Good Friday.

Audience members reportedly thought it was part of the show when philosophy student Suel Ambrose, 25, suddenly fell to the ground, The Sun reports.

But horrified witnesses then realised he was bleeding and rushed to his side.

First-year student Suel, 25, was playing the role of St Peter in the traditional staging of the Passion at Clariantian University in Nigeria.

He fell to the ground after the biblical scene where he cuts the ear of one of the soldiers in an effort to prevent Jesus’ arrest.

He was taken to hospital but he could not be saved.

Suel Ambrose was a first-year philosophy student and wanted to be a priest. Pictures: The Sun

A witness at the university told Vanguard: “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 hospital.”

The student died during this re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. Picture: The Sun

The witness added: “Everybody came together and rushed the deceased to a school hospital and later, when the case became worse, he was taken to a nearby Federal Medical Centre.

“It was from there we heard he could not survive it.”

Suel hoped to train to be become a priest after graduating, friends said.

This story originally appeared in The Sun and has been reproduced with permission