Tears as eight killed in Anambra car crash

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Eight people lost their lives while six others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a road accident that occurred along the Nteje-Awka road, near the New Terminal, Ukpo Junction in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The accident occurred at about 9 p.m. on Sunday when a Toyota Hiace bus, registered as EKP375XM, collided with a Mack tanker without a registration number.

Eyewitnesses near the scene said the bus, which was travelling from Abakaliki to Onitsha, was speeding and overtook dangerously before colliding with the tanker, which was heading towards Awka on a single-carriageway.

The source said, “The crash resulted in eight fatalities — four males and four females — six persons comprising two males and four females sustained various injuries while two died on the spot.”

The Sector Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Anambra Sector Command, Margaret Onabe, confirmed the incident in a statement on Monday.

Onabe added that the rescue team from RS5.33 Nteje attended to the injured victims, transporting them to the hospital for treatment, while the dead victims were taken to Jerusalem Mortuary, Nteje.

She attributed the cause of the crash to speeding.

She said, “The Federal Road Safety Corps Anambra Sector Command regrets to announce a fatal crash on April 27, at approximately 9 pm along the Nteje-Awka route, near the New Terminal close to Ukpo Junction.

According to eyewitness accounts and preliminary investigations, a Mack tanker without a registration number collided with a Toyota Hiace bus, registered as EKP375XM.

“The bus, which was travelling from Abakaliki to Onitsha, was speeding and overtook dangerously before colliding with the tanker, which was heading towards Awka on a single carriageway. The crash resulted in eight fatalities—four males and four females—and injured six others, comprising two males and four females.”