Nigerian News Beat

About  10 persons are feared to have died in a multiple accident that occurred, yesterday, at Okwe junction, Asaba on Asaba/Benin highway while several others were wounded.
As a result of the accident which occurred at about 7.30am, movement was stopped on that stretch of the road leading to the Asaba bridge head.The obstruction was, however, cleared through efforts of men of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC.

An eyewitness told our reporter that the accident occurred when a trailer loaded with cement and moving towards the east allegedly lost control and rammed into an oncoming commuter bus plying Asaba/Onitsha route. The bus was mangled in the process.

Two other vehicles, a Nissan car and another truck,  were also affected in the crash.

The scene

“A total of 16 persons, comprising 12 male and four females, were involved in the multiple crash while  four males and three females were injured and number of those killed were 5 males.

“The cause of the accident was break failure and the victims and corpses were taken to Federal Medical Centre, Asaba.”