Tragedy as road crash kills 25 persons in Bauchi

Pandemonium on Thursday in Udobo village in Gamawa Local Government Area of Bauchi State when 25 people died in a single auto crash.

Sector Commander of the FRSC in Bauchi State, Mr Yusuf Abdullahi, briefed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Friday that ten other persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash.

According to him, the accident involved one Toyota Hummer bus in which the over-speeding driver lost control after a tyre burst.

“Thirty-five persons were involved in the road crash.

“Twenty-five of them – nine adult male, 11 adult females, two male children and three female children – lost their lives on the spot.

“Ten others sustained serious injuries, and they are all male adults,’’ he said.

He narrated that the injured persons were taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Azare, in Katagum Local Government Area of the state, while the corpses of the deceased were taken to Hadeja in Jigawa for burial.

Abdullahi cautioned motorists to always be conscious of traffic rules and regulations while plying the roads.