Tears as family of 4 crushed to death by commercial driver

By Miracle Esegha, Warri

Unease in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State as a commercial car driver crushed four members of a family to death on Sunday.

A close source said the incident happened on Sunday evening when a car hit the motorcycle carrying the victims, who all died on the spot.

A spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Jigawa State, confirmed the incident in a press statement issued to Newsmen on Monday.

He said: “A fatal accident occurred yesterday, Sunday, May 21, at around 5 pm in Babura Town, along Babura-Gumel Road, and four people died on the spot.”

The incident reportedly occurred when the driver of the commercial vehicle, Hamisu Ahmed, travelling to Gumel at high speed, hit the victims, who were on a motorcycle on the way to their village, Kolori.

The source identified the victims as 45-year-old Gambo Mutari, his 25-year-old wife, Fiddausi Abdullah, his mother-in-law, Hauwa Maigari, and their two-year-old child, were rushed to the Babura General Hospital and confirmed dead.
The deceased had been buried according to Islamic injunctions.