Outrage has trailed the death of a 23-year-old Nigerian medical student, Marian Nnani, who, on Sunday, succumbed to injuries sustained during a Russian strike in Ukraine.
The attack occurred in Kharkiv, just days before Marian was reportedly due to graduate.
Marian, a student of Kharkiv National Medical University, was injured on June 29 after Russian forces struck the Kholodnohirskyi district with guided aerial bombs.
According to Fellow Nurses Africa, an independent platform that educates, informs and supports nurses across the continent, Marian’s closest friend, 23-year-old Fatima Huseynova, who was also a student of the university, was killed instantly in the attack.
From reports published by Fellow Nurses Africa and SPRAVDI—Stratcom Centre—that Marian died on Sunday at a hospital in Germany, where she had been transferred to for specialist treatment after receiving initial care in Kharkiv.
Quoting Kharkiv National Medical University, the report stated that the institution announced Marian’s death on Sunday.
The university described her as “a dedicated, talented and compassionate student” who began studying medicine there in 2020.
