● Military gun truck collides head-on with Hummer bus, bus bursts into flames in Girei-Song LGA
Four serving National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members and a soldier were among six persons burnt to death Wednesday after a military gun truck collided head-on with a commercial Hummer bus in Adamawa State.
The Adamawa State Police Command confirmed the accident occurred in the Narehi area of Girei-Song Local Government Area.
Police spokesperson SP Suleiman Nguroje said the “unfortunate incident involved a military gun truck travelling from Gombi towards Yola and a commercial Hummer bus conveying five passengers from Yola to Mubi.”
“Preliminary findings reveal that both vehicles were involved in a head-on collision, resulting in the commercial bus flipping over and bursting into flames. Tragically, all five passengers aboard the Hummer bus were burnt to death after the vehicle caught fire following the collision,” Nguroje stated.
Preliminary identification showed four of the deceased passengers were NYSC members posted to Adamawa. Two were named as Juliet Suleiman and Usman Shuaibu, both indigenes of Kaduna State. The identities of the remaining two passengers are yet to be confirmed.
One military personnel attached to the gun truck also died in the crash.
“The corpses have been evacuated to the Specialist Hospital, Yola, while efforts are ongoing to identify the remaining bodies and locate their families,” the police said.
The Commissioner of Police expressed condolences to the families of the deceased, the Armed Forces of Nigeria, NYSC, and all those affected by the tragedy. [Culled from Eagle Online]
