Five Killed, 12 Injured In Ebonyi Highway Crash
Five persons, including a female child, lost their lives while 12 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a lone road accident along the Nkalagu axis of the Enugu–Abakaliki Federal Highway in Ebonyi State on Friday. The Ebonyi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Daniel Asanya, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Abakaliki. According to him, the accident occurred at Edema Bridge in Nkalagu, Ishielu Local Government Area, involving a commercial white Toyota Hiace bus with registration number RSH 231 XE travelling from Abakaliki to Enugu. Asanya said the vehicle was conveying 17 passengers comprising 12 males, four females and one female child. “The crash claimed the lives of five persons, four males and one female child while 12 others, comprising eight males and four females, sustained injuries,” he said. The FRSC commander attributed the accident to excessive speed, noting that preliminary investigations ident...
