[b]As residents of Otukpa, Ogbadibo LG of Benue
State try to recover from the shock that gripped
the community on Sunday evening over an auto
clash which claimed lives of students and other
commuters; a certain man from the local
government (name withheld) has come out with
a surprised revelation.
According to the man, his daughter left home on
Thursday evening after been settled for the
Semester.
He went further to say the entire household was
rest assured that the lady was already in school
and had settled down for the academic
semester, only to find her corpse amongst the
fresh accident victims on Sunday in Otukpa.
“We all believed she was in school since on
Thursday. What was she doing in Otukpa for the
past 3 days? Why is her corpse lying amongst
those accidents victims here?”, he asked
rhetorically while lamenting.
A tanker laden with diesel product had on
Sunday evening rammed into a Volkswagen car
which took off from Otukpa and was heading
towards Ugbokolo in Okpokwu LG, crushing the
vehicle to a palm and killing all the occupants in
the car.
No rescue was made as the men and Officers of
the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC couldn’t
get a towing van to lift the remain of the tanker
off the victims.
A community source who spoke to our
Correspondent on condition of anonymity said
“the Officers of the FRSC really tried their best;
they had to keep vigil at the accident spot in
Odoba till on Monday morning when they were
able to get a towing van from Enugu State to
remove the tanker from the bodies of the
victims which were crushed beyond recognition.
Can you imagine the FRSC don’t have such
equipment in Benue State”.
Our Correspondent was unable to speak with
the Unit Commander of the FRSC in Ogbadibo
to ascertain the official figure of the casualties.
Similarly, all efforts made by our Correspondent
to get the Public Relations Officer of Benue
State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo on the casualties on
the part of the school proved abortive as he
was not on seat on Monday as at time of
visitation and he didn’t return his missed calls.
Meanwhile, another community source has
revealed that about 8 persons lost their lives in
the unfortunate incidence, though he claimed he
could only identify the driver of the car, (an
indigene of Adum Otukpa), a student of Benue
Polytechnic (from Orido Otukpa) and a nursing
mother with her baby.[/b]

This is pathetic!

This is real sad.

OP, edit and write ' viewer discretion seriously advised' please.

Jeeezzz! Lord Have Mercy

Like seriously