At least 11 people including women and children were killed when an overloaded passenger van plunged into a ravine in Pakistan’s mountainous northwest on Sunday, officials said.
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TRUCK CRUSHES OKADA RIDER TO DEATH IN LAGOS (GRAPHIC IMAGE)
A commercial motorcyclist was crushed to death by a heavy duty truck at Daleko area of Lagos on Thursday.
Continue reading »6 KILLED, 12 INJURED IN AUTO CRASH IN KOGI
Six persons on Monday lost their lives while 12 others were injured in an auto crash at Osara village on Lokoja-Okene road in Kogi. Villagers told newsmen that the accident, which occured at about 9am, involved three vehicles – a truck, a Toyota Hiace bus and a Nissan Primera car. According to the eyewitnesses, the truck and Toyota bus had […]
Continue reading »TWO DEAD, POLICEMAN, SCORES INJURED IN GHASTLY LAGOS ACCIDENT
Two persons were yesterday killed in a series of fatal accidents along the Oshodi Expressway that also left a policeman and scores of persons with varying degree of injuries. The accident caused a heavy gridlock on the busy road which took the combined efforts of emergency workers from the Lagos State Emergency Agency (LASEMA), state Fire Service and other agencies […]
Continue reading »FATHER, CHILDREN, SISTERS-IN- LAW KILLED BY SPEEDING CONVOY IN ANAMBRA
No fewer than eight persons were reportedly killed in auto crashes in Anambra, Lagos and Ogun states, while about 12 persons sustained varying degrees of injury. In the Anambra incident, which occurred on Awor Road, Oraifite village, in the Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state, a man identified as Chinedu Nwannem, his two children and two sisters-in-law were killed […]
Continue reading »BUS CRASH IN PRETORIA KILLS 20 CHILDREN
At least 20 children were killed in a bus crash outside the South African capital Pretoria on Friday, emergency services said, as paramedics treated the injured at the scene. The minibus collided with a truck on a road between the towns of Bronkhorstspruit and Verena, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Pretoria. “It is confirmed 20 children have been killed,” […]
Continue reading »AT LEAST 44 FEARED DEAD IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN INDIA
At least 44 people are feared dead after a private bus swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep gorge in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh state, according to a government official. The rescue operation is ongoing and casualties could increase, according to Rohan Chand Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Shimla district, where the accident occurred on Wednesday. “Our officials, […]
Continue reading »26 KILLED AS PHILIPPINES BUS PLUNGES INTO RAVINE
At least 26 people were killed and 21 injured when a passenger bus crashed into a deep ravine in the mountainous northern Philippines on Tuesday, authorities said. The bus plunged about 24 metres (80 feet) in the upland province of Nueva Ecija before noon after its brakes failed while travelling on a winding road, police and local officials said. “The […]
Continue reading »ONE DIES, FIVE INJURED IN OGUN CRASH
One person was killed while five others were injured in an auto crash which occurred along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road, Asero, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday. The three cars involved in the crash were a Nissan Micra taxi, with number plate, SGM 918 XA; a Honda Accord, with number plate, EKY 191 XA; and another Nissan taxi, with number plate, AYE […]
Continue reading »EASTER TRAGEDY: SEVEN KILLED, 19 INJURED IN LAGOS ACCIDENTS
No fewer than seven people lost their lives on Monday in two separate accidents in the Gbagada and Surulere areas of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that while two passengers died and 14 sustained varying degree of injuries in the Gbagada crash, five died and five others were injured in the Surulere incident. Our correspondents gathered that the Gbagada accident […]
Continue reading »PROFESSOR, BABY, PREGNANT WOMAN, THREE OTHERS DIE IN CAR CRASH
A Professor of Human Physiology and Dean, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences at the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Prof. Robert Nneli, and five others on Thursday died in a multiple auto crash that occurred along the Ezzamgbo axis of the Abakaliki/Enugu Expressway. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Ebonyi State, Mrs. Stella Uchendu, who […]
Continue reading »7 DIED, 136 MISSING IN KEBBI BOAT ACCIDENT
No fewer than seven people have died and seven hospitalized in Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi when a boat carrying 150 passengers returning from Malali Market capsized along River Niger. The Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in-charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States, Alhaji Sulaiman Muhammad, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ngaski […]
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