Nasarawa Accident: Police confirmed 9 dead
Fatimah Abdullahi
Nigeria Police in Nasarawa state on Friday confirmed the death of nine persons in an accident involving tipper truck and a Sharon vehicle at Gora village in Karshi, Karu local government area of the state.
The state Command spokesperson, ASP Ismaila Umar-Numan, who confirmed the report added that four other victims of the fatal accident have been taken to hospital for treatment.
According to Umar-Numan, it was the tipper loaded with sharp sand that rammed into the Sharon vehicle.
“We received information on June 26, 2015, that nine people died while four others were hospitalised as a result of ghastly accident as tipper loaded with sharp sand rammed into a Sharon vehicle along Gora village in Karshi, Karu local government area of the state”, he said, adding that the residents of Gora village had since Thursday night being mourning the crushing of nine people of the area to death.
While to Allah to grant the affected families the fortitude to bear the loss, the police image maker said, police have since released the corpse of the deceased to the affected families for burial.