Six varsity students, driver crushed to death in Kogi

From Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja

Tragedy struck on Monday when six students of Federal University Lokoja and a driver lost their lives as articulated vehicles rammed into FUL shuttle bus conveying them to school at Felele, Lokoja, which is notorious for terrible accidents

An eyewitness account said the accident occurred at about 2.30 pm on Monday. He further disclosed to our correspondent that six students, including the driver of the FUL shuttle bus, lost their lives during the accident.

According to the source, the articulated vehicle was carrying wood and hundreds of Jerry cans of palm oil heading to the Abuja axis when he lost control of the vehicle due to break failure and rammed into the FUL shuttle bus, which was already filled up with students and was about to convey them to school.

The FUL shuttle bus was crushed by the articulated vehicles as motorists and passengers travelling along the highway were stranded.

However, officers of the Federal Road Safety Commission were on hand to rescue some victims that were trapped under the articulated vehicle.

The State Sector Commandant of the FRSC, Mr. Samuel Oyedeji who led him team to the scene of the accident disclosed to newsmen that he can’t give actual numbers of those that lost their lives.

He however disclosed that those were injured have been moved to Federal Teaching Hospital Lokoja and Kogi State Specialist Hospital also in Lokoja for further treatment, while bodies have been deposited in the Morgue of the hospitals for identification.

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