About-to-wed DPO, two friends killed in crash

File: Accident scene

The Bauchi State Police Command is mourning the tragic death of a 42-year-old Divisional Police Officer of the Railway Division, Mustapha Garba, who died in a fatal car crash less than an hour before his wedding Fatiha.

PUNCH Metro gathered from the state police spokesperson, Mohammed Wakil, in a telephone interview on Sunday, that two other individuals also lost their lives in the Saturday accident.

According to Wakil, the crash occurred around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, along the Bargar Tsamiya area in the Toro Local Government Area.

The accident involved a Mercedes-Benz driven by the DPO, with two passengers onboard, and a stationary Opel Astra parked by the roadside. Punch