At less than 10 passengers, including two babies, have been killed following an auto crash at Apu na ekpu area, near the Umuika Junction,Abia State, along the Enugu – Port Harcourt expressway.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the accident occured as a Toyota Sienna bus belonging to Abia Line network company which was fully loaded with passengers, lost control and collided with a truck before crashing into the bush.
The bus which was heading to Umuahia was said to be on top speed and lost control of the bus and rammed into the moving truck.
As at the time of filing this report, sympathizers were assisting the men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, to convey the dead bodies to the morgue.
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