No fewer than 29 passengers on board two buses were feared dead in a
road mishap that occoured along the ever-busy Potishkum-Kano road,
Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC( has confirmed.
The state Sector Commander, Shehu Umar, said that two buses
travelling on the opposite direction had a head on collusion about 10 km
from Potiskum and killed all the passengers on board lost their lives
in head on collusion.
“The buses went up in fire as they collided, killing the 29 victims with nine burnt beyond recognition,” he said.
Mr. Umar attributed the accident to reckless driving and over-speeding.
“Accidents on this road are mostly associated with reckless driving and over-speeding,” he said.
Mr. Umar said that one of the vehicles involved in the accident belongs to Borno Express Bus Service.
“We are yet to determine the destination of the vehicles that is
where they took off from and where they were heading to because we are
still concentrating efforts to deposit the corps at the General
Hospital, Potiskum,” he said.
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