Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested a suspect who allegedly shot dead a final-year student of the Rivers State University on Thursday morning.

The student was said to be having a meal on the third floor of a restaurant near the Faculty of Management Sciences about 9:10 am when the assailants trailed and shot him dead.

Spokesman for the State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, said the incident is cult-related, adding that a gun was found in the pants of the killed student.