LOKOJA: It was another tragic story yesterday as 14 passengers of a luxury bus who fell into the hands of armed robbers were crushed by another luxury bus, while many others sustained serious injuries along the Zariagy-Kabba Road junction.
The incident which occurred around 5.30 am attracted sympathizers and led to a heavy traffic gridlock at the ever busy Kabba federal highway for almost three hours.
The sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Sunday Maku who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said the accident occurred following a reported case of armed robbery along the route early in the mourning.
According to the sector commander, “we got a distress call that some armed robbers had intercepted a luxury bus at the Zariagy-Kabba junction at Zariagi, just some few kilometers to Kabba junction were they ordered the passengers to alight from the bus and forced them to lie face flat on the main road.
“As the passengers were still lying on the road, the driver of another luxury bus was unaware that there were people lying on the road and coming in high speed went over them killing fourteen of them on the spot.”
He gave a breakdown of those that lost their lives in the tragic indent to include 10 men, three women and a little girl.
The corpses of the deceased, according to the FRSC boss had been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre FMC and State Specialist Hospital Lokoja. He, therefore, urged all those whose families and relations traveled and had not returned to check the hospitals for possible identifications of the victims.
The police spokesman, ASP Osunkanmi Ajayi, when contacted on the issue, also confirmed the development just as he noted that the luxury bus that overran the deceased had been impounded and was in police custody.
“The police are also closing up on the armed robbers and we shall soon get at them, “he said.
The incident which occurred around 5.30 am attracted sympathizers and led to a heavy traffic gridlock at the ever busy Kabba federal highway for almost three hours.
The sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Sunday Maku who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said the accident occurred following a reported case of armed robbery along the route early in the mourning.
According to the sector commander, “we got a distress call that some armed robbers had intercepted a luxury bus at the Zariagy-Kabba junction at Zariagi, just some few kilometers to Kabba junction were they ordered the passengers to alight from the bus and forced them to lie face flat on the main road.
“As the passengers were still lying on the road, the driver of another luxury bus was unaware that there were people lying on the road and coming in high speed went over them killing fourteen of them on the spot.”
He gave a breakdown of those that lost their lives in the tragic indent to include 10 men, three women and a little girl.
The corpses of the deceased, according to the FRSC boss had been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre FMC and State Specialist Hospital Lokoja. He, therefore, urged all those whose families and relations traveled and had not returned to check the hospitals for possible identifications of the victims.
The police spokesman, ASP Osunkanmi Ajayi, when contacted on the issue, also confirmed the development just as he noted that the luxury bus that overran the deceased had been impounded and was in police custody.
“The police are also closing up on the armed robbers and we shall soon get at them, “he said.
My goodness!!!
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