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12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by Johnwicky(m): 12:29pm On Dec 09, 2019
Twelve persons have died in an accident on Sunday as a truck container carrying over 103 people somersaulted at Sawmill village along Mokwa-Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger state.

The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr Joel Dagwa, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Minna that the accident involved a container truck with registration No. KJ 555 XX heading to Lagos .

Dagwa said that the truck took off from Maiduguri, picked passengers from Zaria in Kaduna State before heading to Lagos.


” The accident involved 103 people, 55 females ,40 males, 8 children’s , 5 adults. Twelve of them were killed while 91 sustained injuries and taken to Mokwa general hospital for treatment.

“All the 12 corpses have been deposited at the hospital’s morgue,” he said.

He blamed the accident on over-speeding on a sharp bend of the road.

Source: https://www.ogbeta.ng/2019/12/12-die-as-lagos-bound-container-truck.html

Re: 12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by Johnwicky(m): 12:30pm On Dec 09, 2019
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Re: 12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by mattjunior(m): 12:31pm On Dec 09, 2019
Sad sad
Re: 12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by NOC1(m): 12:39pm On Dec 09, 2019
Humans in container, are they been smuggled in?
There was a country.

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Re: 12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by juliusocean(m): 2:59pm On Dec 09, 2019
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Re: 12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by juliusocean(m): 3:02pm On Dec 09, 2019
All the way from maiduguri No Frsc official stopped them for overload they're busy looking for people using Google maps in lagos
Re: 12 Die As Lagos-bound Container Truck Carrying 103 People Crashes (Photos) by Dollywood(m): 5:37pm On Dec 09, 2019
This country keeps getting worse
I'm fed up cry

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