Four persons were said to have been burnt to death while two others were injured when a loaded fuel tanker fell and exploded around Fidiwo area along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday. The four victims were said to have been trapped inside the fuel tanker which fell on its side, and caught fire, along with another tanker it scrubbed on the […]
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Tragedy has struck the education sector in Delta State as a bus conveying secondary principals who were traveling for an all-important education meeting was on Friday involved in a ghastly motor accident killing at least four of the principals while nine others are said to be battling for their lives. It was learnt that the principals were travelling to Kwale […]
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A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Dada Segun, was on Thursday crushed to death by a fuel-laden tanker along the Gbongan-Osogbo Expressway. Our correspondent, who visited the scene, gathered that the accident which occurred around 9.30am caused a heavy traffic on the road and motorists were forced to take alternative routes. Irate youths of Owode-Ede, where the […]
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The Giron-Masa community, in the Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State has been thrown into mourning after 22 traders, who were returning home from a market, were killed in a road crash. PUNCH Metro learnt that the bus driver had attempted to avoid a pothole when he hit a motorcyclist, which made the bus to somersault several times before […]
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Pandemonium occurred Saturday at Liverpool Roundabout, at the Apapa area of Lagos, when a commercial bus driver killed a soldier. The soldier, attached to Signal Barracks, Apapa, which is a few meters away from the said roundabout, was said to have been walking on the sidewalk when the bus driver hit him. According to eyewitness account, due to the vehicular […]
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An Italian couple were killed Thursday when a motorway bridge collapsed on top of their car, police said, as debate sparked over the reasons for the second tragedy of its kind in just over four months. Antonella Viviani, 54, and her husband Emidio Diomede, 60, died at the scene after the bridge, which was undergoing maintenance work, gave way onto […]
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A lorry has crushed dead four policemen attached to X Squad of the Lagos State Police Command. The command in a statement said the policemen were killed when a lorry ran over their patrol van along Shagamu Road, Isiwu, Ikorodu Sunday afternoon. The patrol van was said to be chasing another patrol van that allegedly extorted money from some motorists. […]
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No fewer than 25 people were on Monday feared dead on the ever-busy Owerri – Onitsha expressway in Imo State when two heavy duty trucks collided with two hummer buses. The tragedies happened at Catering school Junction and Okpokija Junction, respectively in Irete community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state between 4 and 4: 20 pm […]
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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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