Four persons were feared dead while three others
were injured in a vehicle accident along the Agbor-
Abraka Road in Delta on Saturday, the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The incident reportedly occurred at about 6.30 a.m.,
involving a commercial bus with registration number
KRD 862 XC and two articulated vehicles with
registration numbers XC 306 AUC and XC 842 AUC.
Mr Olusola Olusegun, the Issele Uku Unit Assistant
Area Commander of the Federal Road Safety
Commission (FRSC), confirmed the incident.
The assistant area commander said the two
articulated vehicles collided while the bus rammed
into them.
Olusegun said that two of the dead bodies had been
recovered and deposited at the Obiaruku General
Hospital while the three injured persons had been
taken to the Agbor General Hospital.
He said that the two drivers of the articulated
vehicles were trapped in their vehicles, adding that
officials of the FRSC were trying to disentangle the
trapped bodies.
Olusegun said that officials of the FRSC had been at
the scene of the accident, trying to remove the
wreckage of the vehicles to make way for traffic to
flow on the road.