Lucky Obukohwo, reporting
25 persons were reported to have lost their lives in a lone accident that happened on Thursday in Udobo village of Gamawa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
Yusuf Abdullahi, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) who disclosed this in Bauchi on Friday, said 10 others sustained various degrees of injuries.
According to him, the accident which occured around 4:30pm involved one Toyota Hummer bus used for commercial purposes.
Abdullahi, who explained that it took the personnel of the corps barely 20 minutes to arrive at the crash scene to clear the site, attributed the cause of the crash to overloading, speed violation, tire burst and loss of control.
“35 persons were involved in the road crash and 25 which comprised nine male adults, 11 female female adults, two male children and three female children lost their lives on the spot.
“10 others sustained serious injuries and they are all male adults,” he said.
He noted that the injured had been taken to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Azare in Katagum Local Government Area of the state for treatment while the corpses of the deceased were taken to Hadeja in Jigawa state for burial.
The Sector Commander, however, appealed to motorists to always be conscious of traffic rules and regulations while plying the roads.