Showing posts with label This is the EMBER MONTH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This is the EMBER MONTH. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Multiple Crashes On Collapse Bridge K*lling About 23 Persons

This is the EMBER MONTH, we should be more careful and prayerful. There were multiple crashes in Katsina due to a collapse bridge. The first crash involved a bus conveying 24 passengers which plunged into the bridge few minutes after its collapse on Monday night. According to the witness, the bridge collapsed at about 9.30p.m. due to heavy downpour and moments after the bus with registration number XA 328 KZR, conveying passengers from Kano to Katsina, fell into the bridge. The villagers said efforts made to alert the bus driver was to no avail as he was on high speed. The bus and the passengers were swept by the heavy current and some of the d*ad bodies were recovered miles away in Ajiwa area, the villagers and officials told NAN. NAN also gathered that only two of the passengers in the bus, including a student of Federal College of Education, Bichi in Kano state, survived the incident..