SAN FRANCISCO, December 29, (THEWILL) – The Police Command in Niger state, says 23 persons lost their lives when a truck fully loaded with dozens of cows and 45 persons, skidded off the road and somersaulted into a bush.
A statement by the Commissioner of Police, Adamu Usman, said the accident occurred at about 5:00 am along Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state,
Usman said the truck, with registration Number BBJ 666 XA, was coming from Dadin Kowa, in Kebbi state, enroute to Lagos when the incident occurred,
He explained that the corpses of the deceased, and the other 22 who sustained various degree of injuries, had been conveyed to the Mokwa General Hospital.
Usman, who attributed the accident to loss of control by the driver, lamented the failure of drivers to obey traffic rules and regulations.
