No fewer than 15 persons were yesterday confirmed dead
when a heavy duty truck laden with 600 bags of cement suffered break failure,
lost control and rammed into a market in Oji-River, Enugu State.The incident occurred along the old Onitsha express way by
Rio filing station at about 10.15 am.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Ebere
Amaraizu, confirmed the incident in a press release:“Over 15 corpses have been evacuated from the accident.
“The bodies were deposited at a nearby mortuary for
identification. The driver of the truck and its conductor have been arrested.”
Relatives of some of the deceased were at the mortuary to
try and identify some bodies as at the time of going to press.
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