A fatal accident occurred at Otukpa, Ogbadibo LG of Benue State on Sunday evening, that claimed lives of students and other commuters.
A tanker laden with diesel product had on Sunday evening rammed into a Volkswagen car which took off from Otukpa and was heading towards Ugbokolo in Okpokwu LG, crushing the vehicle to a palm and killing all the occupants in the car.
Father of one of the victims said, his daughter left home on Thursday evening after been settled for the Semester, only to find her corpse amongst the fresh accident victims on Sunday in Otukpa.
“We all believed she was in school since on Thursday. What was she doing in Otukpa for the past 3 days? Why is her corpse lying amongst those accidents victims here?”, he asked rhetorically while lamenting.
No rescue was made as the men and Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC couldn’t get a towing van to lift the remain of the tanker off the victims.
The Unit Commander of the FRSC in Ogbadibo confirmed the official figure of the casualties.
As another community source has revealed some identity about the 8 persons that lost their lives in the unfortunate incidence, he claimed he could only identify the driver of the car, (an indigene of Adum Otukpa), a student of Benue Polytechnic (from Orido Otukpa) and a nursing mother with her baby.
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