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Tragedy in Niger as truck crushes 23 to death
No fewer than 23 persons have been crushed to death in a fatal motor accident that occurred Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.
The Niger State Police Command said the incident happened after a truck fully loaded with dozens of ows and 45 persons, lost control and somersaulted into a bush.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Usman, who confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, on Monday, said the truck, with registration Number BBJ 666 XA, was coming from Dadin Kowa, in Kebbi state, enroute to Lagos.
Usman explained that the corpses of the deceased, and the other 22 who sustained various degrees of injuries, had been conveyed to the Mokwa General Hospital for postmortem and treatment respectively.
He, however, attributed the accident to loss of control by the driver, lamented the failure of drivers to obey traffic rules and regulations
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