Five persons died and many others were injured when two
trailers rammed into three commercial vehicles on Auchi/Benin road on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses said axes were reportedly used to cut the
trapped buses, one of which was said to belong to Big Joe Transport Company.
The drivers of the two trucks reportedly fled the scene
of the accident.
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| The scene of the accident |
The accident reportedly happened around 9am,
effectively halting traffic on the busy highway for almost eight hours.
Eyewitnesses said the trailers were trying to negotiate
a steep bend from opposite directions but lost control and jammed the
commercial vehicles in between crushing almost all the passengers to instant
death.
The spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC),
Bisi Kazeem, confirmed the incident.
He said at least six vehicles were involved in the
crash, three of them without registration numbers.
Kazeem stated five male survivors and three females
were rushed to Hope Hospital, Auchi one male to Irrua hospital and two females
to Agbede hospital.
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