Five
people reported dead, while 32 others sustained injuries in a crash involving a
Lagos-bound articulated vehicle in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina
State on November 25, 2013, Monday.
According to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN), the accident occurred at about 10.30 a.m. at Wanzamai village on
Funtua-Kano Road when the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle.
The scene of tragedy was near the
new office of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in the area.
The tragic
accident involved a trailer marked XA 471 KAT, carrying 30 cows and 50
passengers.
One of the passengers in the
vehicle, Malam Garba Iliya, said the truck was going to Lagos.
“The driver lost control and veered
off the road throwing all of us into the bush,” Iliya said.
The dead and the injured had been
taken to Malumfashi General Hospital.
It is the second major road accident in Katsina
for the last few days, as six people
died in an auto crash at Farin-Bala village in Jibia Local Government
Area of the state, on Saturday, November 24.
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