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Five Killed, Others Injured As Lord’s Chosen Church Bus Crashes In Imo by immortalcrown(m): 10:06pm On Apr 20
The incident occurred on Friday morning, causing gridlock on the busy Owerri-Onitsha Road.

At least five persons have reportedly died in an accident involving a Coaster bus of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Renewal Movement and a tipper truck in Imo State.

The bus and the tipper truck which were coming from the same direction hit each other and reportedly crashed into a Coca-Cola depot at Orogwe in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state, killing three staff members.

However, another account said the Coca Cola workers were awaiting for their bus by the road when the vehicle knocked them down, killing them.

Eyewitnesses who spoke to journalists at the scene said five persons died instantly and were evacuated by an ambulance to a nearby hospital.

They said some other people were still stuck beneath the bus. One of the eyewitnesses, however, said three workers at the depot were among the deceased.

The eyewitness said, “The accident is between a long coaster bus carrying members of the Lord’s Chosen, and a tipper. The two vehicles were coming from Onitsha to Owerri but the coaster bus, in an effort to overtake the tipper, now hit it by the side and immediately lost control.

“The driver tried to control the steering but it ran into a Coca-Cola depot where over ten of its staff members were knocked down by the vehicle.

“When people gathered and started pulling victims out from the car, we discovered that three of the Coca-Cola staff members died on the spot. Others were badly injured.

“The tipper driver and his conductor also died. The conductor was forcefully pulled out of the back of the tipper and the moving tipper climbed on him. The driver also hit his chest on the steering and bled to death. It was a horrible accident.”

A resident of Orogwe community who spoke on condition of anonymity said none of the Lord’s Chosen members died, but some sustained varying degrees of injury.

“It was actually the Lord’s Chosen’s driver’s fault. He wanted to overtake the tipper without considering the narrowness of the road. As I speak, so many people are still stacked under the Lord’s Chosen’s vehicle.

“We have tried to pull the vehicle out to no avail. We have used a heavy-duty vehicle to pull it out to see if there are some people under it, no way.”

Efforts to speak with personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) who were at the scene of the incident proved abortive as they declined to speak on the issue. Reacting to the accident, Coca-cola said the property affected by the incident was not theirs.

One Bilkis from LSFPR, a PR agency, who spoke on behalf of the company stated: "The accident actually happened at Orogwe along Owerri-Onitsha Road, but not at the Coca Cola depot."

When asked to give details of how the accident happened, she said: "We don’t know for sure how the accident happened but it didn’t occur the way it was reported to have crashed into a Coca Cola depot."

https://saharareporters.com/2024/04/19/five-killed-others-injured-lords-chosen-church-bus-crashes-imo

Re: Five Killed, Others Injured As Lord’s Chosen Church Bus Crashes In Imo by immortalcrown(m): 10:07pm On Apr 20
May their souls rest in peace. May the injured be healed.
Re: Five Killed, Others Injured As Lord’s Chosen Church Bus Crashes In Imo by Igeji: 10:07pm On Apr 20
Please the untimely death is getting much.

Maybe the country needs to seek for help from above to keep this I check
Re: Five Killed, Others Injured As Lord’s Chosen Church Bus Crashes In Imo by EyenIbibio1: 11:24am On Apr 24
Where is @Righteousness2 and his prophetic verses?

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