Four Policemen were confirmed dead after the convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari; Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; and his counterpart in Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, crashed.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the accident occurred on Tuesday evening while inspecting a bridge in Asaba, Delta State.
According to John Okorie, an eyewitness, the driver of the van transporting security men lost control and drove into a deep hole.
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According to the witness, the incident occurred as the truck transporting the security men navigated a bend heading to the Second Niger Bridge construction site.
It was gathered that the vehicle veered off the road while it was speeding to meet up with the ministers’ vehicles.
A Delta Line driver told Newsmen that, “the policeman driver was speeding and while negotiating the bend because of the speed could not control the vehicle. They crashed into a deep pit. I was at the back of the convoy, driving slowly.
“With the help of other people, we rescued four of them but they were badly injured. They were shouting as the vehicle fell on them.”
Anaedoonline.ng reports that Gambari, Fashola and Ngige went ahead with the inspection of the Second Niger Bridge.
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