Four mourners (three women and one male), are said to have been killed, while 15 others sustained injury in a fatal motor accident along Gboko/Makurdi highway after the vehicle they were traveling in lost control and hit a tree on Thursday morning.
The accident was said to have occured after the Toyota Hiace bus conveying some members of Catholic Women Organization CWO, lost control around the NYSC Orientation Camp located at Wannune in Tarka Local government area of Benue State.
As at the time of filing this report, sources from the area confirmed that four women and one male, driver of the vehicle, have died.
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The sources said the crash happened when female members of St. Francis Catholic Church Makurdi were returning to Makurdi after attending the burial of one of their members.
“A bus conveying CWO women that attended a burial coming in from Wannune heading to Makurdi lost control and rammed into a tree killing some of the occupants including the driver and injuring many,” our source said.
When contacted, the Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Yakubu Mohammed, confirmed the accident saying out of the 19 persons that were involved, four died on the spot while 15 sustained various degrees of injury.
“The crash occurred (today) Thursday around 1148hrs. Only one vehicle was involved, a Toyota Hiace. There were 19 people in the vehicle out of which 18 are females and then one male adult. So, the number of injured persons is 15 while the number of those who were killed is four.
“Both the injured and the dead have been taken to St. Christopher Hospital and NKST Hospital, both in Wannune. Cause of accident is over speeding. It happened one kilometer after NYSC Orientation Camp, Wannune,” Mohammed said.
