Barely 48 hours after the tragic incident that occurred at Ikorodu where a fully loaded luxury bus plunged into the Majidun River killing three passengers including the driver, another river-related tragedy struck again on Saturday night when a silver-coloured Kia Rio car plunged into the Lagoon at Mekwen Bridge, Bonny camp, Marina, at about 7.47 p.m., killing a woman. Two […]
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A bus overturned in Argentina on Saturday near Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, killing at least 19 people and leaving 20 injured, officials said. Operated by the Chilean company Turbus, the bus was traveling from the province of Mendoza toward Chile with 40 people on board when the accident occurred in the Andes region, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 […]
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Tragedy struck in the Owode, Ikorodu area of Lagos on Friday after a luxury bus belonging to GUO Transport Company conveying travellers from Enugu plunged into the Majidun River. Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, South West zone (NEMA), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and other rescue agencies have been battling to save the victims. According to the […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, on Sunday confirmed the death of six persons in an auto accident on Malumfashi-Funtua road in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The FRSC Sector Commander, Abdu Bagadawa, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Katsina that the accident occurred at about 2 p.m. in Tashar-fulani village, about 10 kilometres from Malumfashi […]
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Two persons lost their lives while seven others were injured in an auto crash which occurred in front of the abandoned Gateway Hotel, Ota, in Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State on Saturday around 6.10am. Our correspondent gathered that those who died were crushed to death in the accident which involved two trucks that were travelling to Lagos.
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Tragedy struck in Enugu, yesterday, when a train driver rammed into buses and traders at the popular Ogbete Main Market, Enugu, killing a middle-aged man known as Ikechukwu. Several people were also left with various degrees of injuries as the train got to the area without the usual blaring of horns to alert other road users.
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Four persons were killed in Oja Oba Market in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday after the driver of a truck with number plate, AGL 883 XQ, lost control of the truck and rammed into vehicles and the victims. Several other people were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident. An unidentified woman and her two children […]
Continue reading »An unidentified person suspected to be a police escort was on Friday crushed to death by a trailer that skidded off the road in Ugep, headquarters of Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. The incident, which happened at about 8pm close to the Eckankar Temple along the busy Calabar-Ikom Expressway, was said to have happened after the driver […]
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No fewer than thirteen people, comprising 13 females and two males, have died in two separate boat accidents in Niger State. The accident, said to be involving mostly females occurred in the early morning of Tuesday when the boat they were travelling in capsized on the Kontagora River in Magama Local Government Area of the state. The accident, according to […]
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No fewer than eight persons died in a crash on Sunday evening on Hadejia-Kano Road in the Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The accident involved a KIA car with number plate, AS30DBT, and a Honda Sport Civic, with number plate, ZAK238AA. PUNCH learnt that five other persons sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident.
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No fewer than two persons have been confirmed dead while four others were seriously injured after a tanker, loaded with petrol, went up in flames at Kara-Aiyetoro, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was learnt that the tanker was travelling from Lagos State to Ibadan, Oyo State, at top speed, when it lost control and crashed into a […]
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The Kaduna Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed the death of three persons and declared 14 others missing after an 18-seater bus plunged into River Rijana on Kaduna-Abuja Road. The sector’s Head of Operations, Mr. Salisus Galadunci, said the accident occurred around 11pm on Tuesday.
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