Sodiq Rabiu
At least 12 people lost their lives after a passenger bus collided with a truck along a highway in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Niger, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said Saturday.
Three other occupants, including two women and the driver, sustained varying degrees of injuries and were being treated at a general hospital, local news outlets reported.
The deceased victims include four women and eight men. The injured were reportedly taken to Lapai General Hospital.
The crash, which resulted from a head-on collision between a Wemer passenger bus – carrying 15 people and a trailer – happened on Saturday morning at Nami village along the Lapai-Agaie road, Niger State.
The Niger State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Kumar Tsukwam, assured that the agency would conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of the accident and provide updates.
But the bus driver, identified as Mohammed Baba, told Daily Trust newspaper that he took off from Gwari Market Park in Minna, the Niger State capital, en route to Katcha, the headquarters of Katcha LGA.
“I left the park at Gwari Market Park with 15 passengers this morning (Saturday). After we had passed Lapai, this trailer attempted to overtake another vehicle, and before I could control my vehicle, we had a head-on collision. And immediately, the trailer drivers left the scene. We didn’t see them again,” he said from his hospital bed.
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