Five persons died while 32 others sustained injuries in a crash involving a Lagos-bound articulated vehicle on Monday in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the accident occurred at about 10.30am at Wanzamai village on Funtua-Kano Road when the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle.
It occurred close to the new office of the Federal Road Safety Commission in the area.
The lone accident involved a trailer marked XA 471 KAT, carrying 30 cows and 50 passengers.
One of the passengers in the vehicle, Malam Garba Iliya, said the truck was going to Lagos.
.”The driver lost control and veered off the road throwing all of us into the bush,” Iliya said.
The Malunfashi Unit Commander of FRSC, Malam Tijjani Muhammad, told NAN that the truck was going to Lagos.
“The trailer carried 30 cows and 50 passengers,” he said.
Tijjani, who spoke on behalf of the Sector Commander, Malam Habu Dauda, said the dead and the injured had been taken to Malumfashi General Hospital.
NAN
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