Six die, 12 injured as Benue Links bus, truck collide along Makurdi–Otukpo road

Six radical person mislaid their lives successful a tragic roadworthy mishap on the Makurdi–Otukpo road involving an 18-seater Benue Links autobus and a motortruck reportedly owned by the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).

The clang occurred astir 4 p.m. connected Friday adjacent the abandoned Benue Burnt Bricks factory.

Twelve different passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries successful the incident.

An eyewitness explained that the commercialized autobus was transporting passengers from Makurdi to Otukpo and had astir arrived astatine its destination erstwhile the collision happened, hardly 3 kilometres from Otukpo town.

According to the witness, 5 passengers died instantly astatine the mishap scene, portion different unfortunate aboriginal passed distant astatine the Federal University of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital Otukpo (FUHSTHO), wherever the injured victims were taken for treatment.

“It is truly unfortunate that the passengers were already successful Otukpo and heading into municipality erstwhile the motortruck ran into the autobus connected the dusty roadworthy owed to the ongoing operation work,” the eyewitness said.

“There was mediocre visibility due to the fact that of the dust. The operator of the motortruck astir apt did not spot the autobus approaching and rammed into it. Five passengers died connected the spot portion different aboriginal died astatine the hospital,” helium added.

The eyewitness further stated that the 12 survi...