Truck rams into motorcycle workshop, kills 9, injures dozens
Many people were reportedly killed, in an auto accident involving a truck at Vinikland, on the outskirts of Yola, along the Yola-Mubi Federal highways. But officials of the Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC, Adamawa Command, said nine persons were killed in the accident. According to the FRSC officials, the truck, conveying laterite sand, lost control while descending the River Benue bridge and rammed into a motorcycle mechanic workshop. Eyewitnesses added that the truck veered off the road after a tyre burst at the Vinikland junction, close to the Jimeta bridge, and rammed into a crowd of hawkers, passers-by, vehicle shops and others close to the road. "Isa Usman, a traffic control police officer, was the first casualty, the truck hit and smashed him before it rammed into the mechanics", an eyewitness, Talatu Addison, told correspondent. Another eyewitness, Drambi Ezra, said: "It was like a horror scene to see the truck crushing mechanics while working on vehicles....