Mother, Child Die In Bauchi Road Crash

Two persons mislaid their lives successful a fatal clang that occurred on the Bauchi – Jos road successful Miri country of Bauchi State connected Sunday.

The clang progressive an ash-coloured Toyota autobus with registration fig GME 342 YX and an Opel Vectra with registration fig BLD 336 AA, driven by 1 Alhaji Abdu.

Bauchi State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), CC Tijjani Iliyasu, confirmed the mishap successful a Road Traffic Crash (RTC) report, saying the mishap occurred astatine astir 5:45 p.m.

Iliyasu said FRSC rescue unit arrived astatine the country of the mishap astir 5 minutes aft it was reported by 6:05 p.m.

He explained that a full of 22 passengers were connected committee some vehicles, comprising 20 antheral adults and 2 pistillate adults.

Three antheral passengers sustained assorted degrees of injury, portion 2 others, a pistillate big and a antheral child, were confirmed dead.

According to the FRSC, preliminary investigations attributed the clang to over-speeding and a tyre burst, which led to a head-on collision.

He listed items recovered from the country to see a container of clothes, 40 pieces of cattle leg, and a tiny handbag.

The obstruction was rapidly cleared by FRSC personnel, who coordinated the rescue cognition led by MI-I A.H. Masu.

The injured victims were subsequently taken to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi for treatment, portion the corpses were handed implicit to the police.