THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) revealed today that nineteen people were killed in an automobile accident in Kogi State’s Okene district.
“Emergency rescue teams of the Federal Road Safety Corps endured another over three hours of inferno in their bid to rescue road traffic victims at the scene of a fatal crash that claimed 19 lives on Sunday 28 April 2024 at Okene bypass, on the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi State,” said Jonas Agwu, in the FRSC’s corps press release issued today.
The accident was as a result of a collision between two vehicles, a truck and a Toyota Hiace bus from Kano State, he said.
“The impact of the collision resulted in a fire inferno that burnt the victims to death,” the statement went on to say.
The accident happened to twenty-two people, all men, with 19 of them dead, one injured and two more people were rescued unharmed by FRSC personnel.
The bodies of the deceased victims have been placed at Okene General Hospital.
