Twenty-five persons were faired dead in Felele area of Lokoja, Kogi State capital, at the early hours of Wednesday, after a tanker conveying petrol allegedly had break failure and lost control a few metres to the gate of the state polytechnic.
A family of seven; father, mother and five children and about 18 corpses have been recovered to the Kogi State Specialist Hospital, Lokoja.
Efforts to capture the incident by ait.live failed as angry youths beat up reporters that arrived at the venue to report the accident.
As at the time of filing in this report, the convoy of the Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja, and the governor’s wife, who promptly made their way towards the venue, could not gain access as angry youths were still displaying their anger with roads blocked.
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Sadly, men of the fire service are nowhere close to the scene of the incident, leaving officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps and other security agencies on the ground to handle the situation.
Editor: Abaje Usekwe
