Tears as truck crushes four to death in Kogi

TopNaija reports that there was tension on Thursday for residents of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, as no fewer than four persons lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident involving a truck and a tricycle, popularly called Keke NAPEP.

The incident happened at about 7PM within Gadumo 200 unit, along Ajaokuta road.

It was learnt that the truck which was coming from Ganaja village lost control when he was trying to bypass a bad portion of the road under construction.

The accident victims were trapped under the trailer for several hours calling for help as motorists and commuters made several efforts to get them out of the fully loaded truck.

TopNaija put a call to the sector commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Solomon Aguire who immediately responded by drafting his men to the scene of the incident.

Unfortunately, they were turned back by some angry youths who maintained that they put a call across to them for over three hours but no response.

“We have been calling them since but no response. People have been under trailer for more than three hours and they are just coming. What are they coming to do now when almost all of them are dead,” an angry youth said.