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Seven persons person died pursuing a commercialized Siena autobus clang into a stationary heavy-duty motortruck on the Okene–Osara–Lokoja Highway successful Kogi State.
The accident, which occurred connected Sunday successful Osara, besides near 3 different passengers with varying degrees of injuries.
Confirming the incident, the Kogi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lawal Fagge, said the Siena autobus was travelling from Auchi successful Edo State to Abuja erstwhile the clang occurred.
According to him, the bus, which was carrying passengers heading to antithetic destinations, including Abaji successful the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), suffered a tyre burst earlier ramming into a motortruck that had been parked by the roadside for repairs.
Fagge blamed the fatal clang connected excessive speeding, operator fatigue, and the tyre burst.
“Six occupants of the autobus and the truck’s centrifugal lad died, portion 3 others sustained injuries. Our rescue squad responded instantly and evacuated the injured to a adjacent infirmary for aesculapian attention,” Fagge added.
The FRSC commandant said the bodies of the deceased had been deposited astatine the morgue, portion the injured victims were receiving attraction astatine a adjacent hospital.
Fagge urged motorists to obey velocity limits, guarantee due conveyance attraction earlier mounting retired connected immoderate t...
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