Like Hollywood comedy serie it was yesterday as White House reporters ran for cover after a mouse fell from the ceiling of the presidential villa’s press booth.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the rodent which fell on the lap of NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander at about 10:45 a.m on Tuesday october 1, eventually sought refuge amid a tangle of wires behind a shelf.
Confirming the short drama that ensued, some of the White House correspondents including Reuters’ Steve Holland tweeted photos of journalists scrambling in the press room as they searched for the mouse as it ran around the booth.
In other news, tragedy struck in a vocational college situated in Eastern Finland on Tuesday, October 1 as one student confirmed dead and ten (10) others were injured as a sword-wielding man attacked students.
According to Iltahlehti news website, the ‘swordsman’ reportedly walked in a class shortly after midday, pulled a sword out of his bag before attacking the teacher. As she tried to flee, students threw chairs at the attacker in an attempt to escape and some were wounded.