Happening now in Anambra:Crash: 10 Die In Onitsha, 15 Injured in road mishap

At least 10 people died on the spot and 15 sustained various degrees of injuries at Asaba Park Upper Iweka axis, Onitsha, Anambra State yesterday when a truck rammed into commercial motorbike operators, hawkers and commuters there.
 The victims were behind the Asaba park along the busy Onitsha/Asaba expressway carrying out their businesses outside the park since it has been fenced by the state government sequel to the previous accident in the said park that killed about 60 persons.
The driver of the vehicle was said to have lost control of the vehicle on descending the expressway from the Army barracks axis when he had a break failure and lost control and rammed into the victims.
 The identity of some of the victims could not be immediately ascertained as all effort was to send the dead bodies to morgues and the injured to hospitals.

Contacted, the Fegge Divisional Police officer, DPO, Mr. Rabiu Garba, confirmed the accident, adding that it was not in his area but that of the DPO incharge of Central Police Station.
The corpses of those that died were said to have been deposited at St. Charles Borromeo and Toronto
 Hospitals in Onitsha.
 As at the time of filing this report, the truck has been removed from the scene but wares of the hawkers and blood littered the ground.
 It would be recalled that because of the frequent auto accidents that occurred at the Asaba Park, the state government fenced it and turned it into a convenient park.

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