Nine persons were yesterday confirmed dead and 19 others seriously injured after two commercial vehicles collided yesterday along Maiduguri-Kano road.
According to officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), the accident occurred after one of the buses got a tyre burst that forced it to swerve into the opposite lane where it ran into an oncoming vehicle.
Eyewitnesses said nine of the passengers in the two buses died on the spot, while 19 others who sustained clinical injuries were rushed, by FRSC rescue team, to Maiduguri University Teaching Hospital about 60km away.
FRSC, Operations Officer, Amos Thiza, who issued a text message to journalists at about 4:30pm, said, “the accident occurred at about 9am today (Tuesday) near Benishiekh on the Maiduguri-Damaturu road, where two commercial buses crashed, as a result of tyre burst by the vehicle with registration number, LG 09 MFA, which ran into the other bus marked XA 519 GUB.”
The passengers in the two buses, according to Thiza, were 33.
Similarly, four persons died in a ghastly auto crash that occurred on Monday night, on Enugu-Onitsha expressway, in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu state.
Also, 11 persons were injured in the accident that involved a DAF Truck with registration No XA805 FUN and a Toyota Hiace bus, with registration number, XZ 192 ENU, in a head-on.
The state Police Relation Officer, (PPRO), DSP Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the incident when contacted on phone.
He said the dead bodies have been deposited at our Saviour Hospital mortuary, while the eleven injured persons were rushed to unity Hospital Ngwo for medical attention.
The South-east zonal commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Chike Nwakama, described the auto crash as “unfortunate.”
He called on the Chinese Construction Company (CCC Ltd) handling the reconstruction of the road to speed up the work, saying that 96 per cent of road crashes on the Enugu-Onitsha expressway was caused by bad roads.
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