Police in Bauchi State have confirmed the death of 25 passengers involved in a fatal auto crash on along Bauchi-Kano road on Thursday.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Kamal Abubakar in a press release said that the accident occurred at Gubi village, along Bauchi-Kano road.
DSP Abubakar said “there was a fatal motor vehicles accident today, Thursday 12/12/2019 at about 0630hrs, at a location closed to Gubi village along Bauchi – Kano road involving two motor vehicles, Toyota Hummer bus conveying twenty two (22) passengers and J5 bus conveying four (4) passengers and twenty (20) cows.”
He said that the accident occurred when the two vehicles were coming towards opposite direction, adding that, “on reaching a point along the road, they had a head-on collision, as a result all the twenty six (26) passengers from the two vehicles sustained serious burn injuries.”
According to the PPRO, “the victims were immediately evacuated from the scene by security agents with the assistance of good Samaritans to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital for treatment.”
He said, on reaching the hospital, twenty five (25) passengers were confirmed dead by the medical doctor while one survived and is on admission receiving treatment.
The Police image-maker said all the passengers inside the Toyota bus were boarded from Katsina on their way to Yola while the passengers in the J5 bus were from Bauchi on their way to Kano.
He explained that at the time of issuing the press release, only four (4) corpses from the J5 bus were identified by their families and released for burial while twenty one (21) from the Toyata Hummer bus are yet to be identified and claimed by their families.
The police Command therefore called on members of the public whom their family members left Katsina to Yola on Thursday morning and are still unable to reach them to check at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH)Bauchi.
