An auto-crash which occurred in the late hours of Tuesday on
Akwa-Enugu express way has claimed the lives of eight Peoples Democratic Party (Abia
State chapter) members. This incidence occurred on their return from a ward
congress for the party in Anambra State.
It was gathered that five of them on board of a bus conveying 16
members of the party died on the spot while three others died later. Eight
others were seriously injured and are in critical condition.
Mr Sunday Ireogbu, one of the passengers and survivor, claimed
that the driver of the bus was over speeding and slipped..
into a ditch.
The victims included aides to the State Chairman of the party,
Chief Emma Nwaka, and some members of staff of the party’s secretariat, as well
as wards of the party’s chairmen.
The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr. Uchechi
Ogbuka, has confirmed the incident, and described it as “a tragedy.”
In the mean time, another road accident which occurred near
Okada village junction, off the Benin-Ore expressway, in Ovia North East Local
Government Area, in Edo State has claimed the lives of five people.
Only two people was said to have survived with serious injuries
while four died on the spot and another one died before getting to the hospital,
when the car ran into a stationary lorry.
Eye-witnesses said the driver of the vehicle was an epileptic
patient. The witnesses said the driver had an epileptic seizure, which made him
skid off the road and hit the lorry.
“May God
deliver us from every evil work……”
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