According to the Vanguard, the accident was caused by a road block mounted by armed robbers along the Irepeni axis of the highway. The robbers were said to have fled the scene afterwards.
An eyewitness said a luxury bus with number plates KRD 799 LC, heading to Abuja from Lagos, suddenly ran into the road block mounted by armed bandits. As the bus was trying to avoid the blockade, a truck, with number plates KTN 711 YZ, loaded with cows rammed into it, killing several people on the spot.
The eyewitness said the impact of the accident caused the truck to separate from the trailer and compressed the front section of the bus with passengers and driver inside the wreckage.
He described a shocking scene where scores of corpses and the mangled bodies of some of the victims littered the road way before the Federal Road Safety Corps and the police arrived at the scene to assess the damage.
In his words:
“About six heads were severed from their bodies. FRSC officers, police and sympathisers all combined to gather body parts into nylon bags, which were conveyed along with the corpses to the mortuary.”
Vanguard also reported that 25 dead cows were counted at the scene of the accident, while the surviving ones were seen milling around the scene of the accident.
The accident was said to have resulted in traffic gridlock along the highway, as motorists had to take bush paths to escape the gory scene.
The state sector commandant of FRSC, Mr. Charles Abochi, who confirmed the accident, however put the human casualty figure at 12.
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