13 Killed As Trailer Crushed Benue Links Bus In Nasarawa
At least 13 persons were feared killed while eleven others sustained various degrees of injury in a fatal road accident involving a trailer and Benue links on Sunday evening.
According to a witness, the accident happened around 4:20 pm along Akwanga-Lafia road in a village called Angwan chiyawa, in Nasarawa Eggon local government area of the state.
The accident is coming barely a week after a trailer loaded with cement crushed 11 persons to death on the same road.
Our sources said the trailer, coming from Lafia axis and carrying iron rods had a brake failure and rammed into the 18 seater Benue Links bus coming from Abuja, pushing it into a ditch and killing majority of the occupants.
The eyewitness told our correspondent that 11 persons, including a small child survived the fatal accident, while the driver and other occupants of the trailer also died on the spot of the accident.
Travelers were seen evacuating the victims of the accident before the arrival FRSC personnel who took the body of the deceased to a general hospital in the area.
What is wrong, who are the ones sucking peoples blood
It’s a petty, we’ve been cryingover the spilt of our milk. We uge Nasarawa stati government to expand the road-Akwanga to Lafia to reduce lost of lives. Am sure amajor LL be taking soon.