4 dead as truck crushes bus, tricycle
Four persons lost their lives with scores injured, following an auto crash on Aba Waterside River bridge in Ogbor-Hill, Aba, Abia State. Vanguard gathered that the crash occurred as a truck conveying a 40-foot container, was said to have lost its brakes, rammed into a car and tricycle, killing four persons on the spot. An eyewitness told Vanguard that the truck while descending from Opobo Junction axis on Aba Ikot-Ekpene road swerved due to the break failure when it hit another broken down truck on the bridge. The crash into the broken down truck led it to collide with a Sienna bus and a tricycle as well as another stationary vehicle on the bridge. When Vanguard visited the scene, men of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, were seen directing traffic. Sympathizers made frantic efforts to rescue the injured and those trapped under the container. One of the rescued passengers in the tricycle had her legs damaged, while the other was seriously injured. Some of the sympath...