3 killed in road accident while conveying corpse of a late police officer in kogi.

AbdulAhad Otuoze
Three persons including two police officers have been confirmed death in a road accident along Anyagba road while conveying the death body of their colleagues to his village.
It was gathered that the accident occured on Thursday morning while the two police officer and a driver of the Ambulance that was conveying a police officer who lost his life in another motor accident collided with an articulate vehicle.
According to an eyewitnesses account the two police officers and the driver of the Ambulance had carried the death body of their colleagues from the mortuary and heading for his home town when the accident occured at Ojuwo-Olijo village.
The sources said the driver of the Ambulance and the two police officers in the Ambulance died on the spot while the driver of the truck ran away.
Meanwhile, the Kogi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Solomon Aghure while confirming the incident on Thursday to Nigerian Tribune, he explained that the policemen and the driver owere travelling in an ambulance with an empty casket to collect the corpse of a police Sergeant from a mortuary in Ayingba.
However, the ambulance, in which they were travelling collided with a Mercedes Benz truck coming from the opposite direction at a spot in Ojodu community on the road.
Also the State Police Command spokeman, DSP William Aya who also confirmed the incident explained that the two policemen were detailed to go and pick the corpse of the deceased sergeant at Ayingba and accompany it to Adamawa State for proper burial as requested by the family of the deceased.
According to him, the driver of the truck and his motor boy took to their heels before they could be arrested.
He said that the corpses of the two police inspectors were deposited at a morgue in Lokoja while that of the civilian driver of the ambulance was released to his family.
Aya expressed the sympathy of the state police Commissioner , Mr Ayuba Ede, with the relations of the late police officers , assuring that their death will not be in vain.