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By Correspondent in Lokoja
The Federal Road Safety Commission,Kogi State Command says that no fewer than 14 adults have lost their lives in an auto accident which occurred on Lokoja- Kabba road in the state.
According to the comand, all the four children in the auto crash however, survived.
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Mr Solomon Aghure, who confirmed this in Lokoja on Wednesday, said the accident involved three vehicles.
The vehicles, he added, were Aghure a DAF truck with number plate, Gombe GME 44 ZU, Honda Accord with registration number Abuja GWA173KH and a white Toyota Hiace passenger bus with registration number Kano KTV378XF.
He said that the accident happened around 12:50 p.m at Apata community, involving 26 passengers, made up of nine males, 13 females as well as four children.
Aghure further revealed that eleven women and three men died on the spot while three others, including two men and a woman sustained various injuries.
Aghure, however, said that all the four children involved in the crash survived.
He said that the injured were taken to the hospital for treatment with the assistance of other security agencies while the corpses were deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.
The sector commander, who blamed the accident on tyre burst and reckless driving, said that FRSC would carry further investigation to get more facts about the unfortunate incident.
