Kogiflame
19 persons have lost their lives in an auto crash in the Okene area of Kogi State.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Corps Education Officer Jonas Agwu who confirmed this to Newsmen on Sunday said the accident involved two vehicles, a truck, and a Toyota Hiace bus coming from Kano State, he said. Both vehicles collided.
According to him, 22 persons, all male, were involved, but 19 of them were killed and one injured, 2 other persons were rescued unhurt by FRSC operatives.
“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,” FRSC’s corps education officer Jonas Agwu said in a Sunday statement.
“The impact of the collision resulted in a fire inferno that burnt the victims to death,” the statement read.
The bodies of the dead victims have been deposited at Okene General Hospital.
