Trailer Crushes 4 Beggars In Jos

Four cripple beggars were yesterday killed by a truck at the front of the Jos Central Mosque.
Eyewitnesses told LEADERSHIP Weekend that incident occurred at 4.30pm yesterday, as the truck lost control and rammed into the beggars, killing them instantly.
Publicity secretary, Jamatu Nasril Islam (JNI), Mallam Umar Faruk Musa, said the truck was coming from the Maternity area of the city to Nassarawa Gwom Jos but lost control on approaching a transformer near Matani Hospital and crashed into the Central Mosque.
According to him, the truck damaged part of the mosque while two people were seriously injured. They are now receiving treatment at Matani Hospital.
Musa stressed that the incident it was a purely a case of accident and not an attack.
In Ogun State, no fewer than four persons were confirmed dead and 10 others seriously injured in two separate accidents which occurred along the Lagos -Abeokuta Expressway yesterday.
While the first accident occurred near Sona Breweries in Ijako area of Sango Ota, the second mishap took place on the same route at Wasinmi area in Ewekoro local government area.
Four persons were burnt beyond recognition while three others were seriously injured in the first accident which occurred at 7: 20am.
The Sango Ota Unit commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Richard Olutiriko, who confirmed the first accident, said that it involved a Volkswagen bus with registration number (LAGOS) XM 587 EKY.
Olutiriko, who attributed the cause of the accident to speed limit violation by the driver, explained that the Abeokuta-bound bus rammed into the road divider in front of the Sona Breweries, somersaulted three times before it went up in flame.
In the Wasinmi accident, Itori Unit commander of the FRSC, Fatai Bakare, confirmed that seven persons were injured in the accident, which involved a blue-colour Ford bus with registration number AA 384 TAK and a white MAC truck with registration number (Lagos) KJA 113 XB.
Similarly, a road accident involving a petroleum tanker and a car at Oloru village in Moro local government area of Kwara State, yesterday claimed three lives.
Head of operations of the Kwara State command of FRSC, Mr. Adekanye Olufemi, confirmed this to LEADERSHIP Weekend last night. He said the accident occurred at 4.30pm when the two vehicles collided.
Olufemi said three of the six occupants of the car died on the spot while the petrol tanker caught fire.
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