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By Correspondent in Lokoja
Four persons have been burnt to death in a ghastly motor accident that occurred between Ohono and Akpanya along Lokoja-Abuja road under Lokoja Local Government Area in Kogi State on Thursday.
Our Correspondent gathered that the accident happened at about 7a.m when an 18-seater bus lost control while returning from Lagos to Kano State.
Three of the dead were uniform men while the locals rescued other passengers with burns in their body.
As at the time of filing this report, the 18 seater bus was still burning while officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC) where seen at the scene of the incident.
The Reporters was told by the locals that this is not the first time accidents have been happening in that same on the spot as many lives have been lost due to the bad nature of the road.
The Kogi State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corp, (FRSC), Solomon Agure, confirmed the incident to Journalists.
” Is it a night journey. In the early morning of today, between 6:30am to 7am, there was a tanker that was parked by the road side and the vehicle lost control and hit the tanker and later went into flame” he said.
Agure advised motorists to avoid night journey saying, “God who created us knows why he created day and night. The vehicle is coming from Lagos in the nnight.For you to be around Jamata bridge, Akpayan road at that early hours means that you drove through out the night.
Drivers should avoid stressing themselves by shunning driving at night to avoid accidents on our roads,”he advised.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
