No fewer than 19 people have lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident along the Kateri axis of the Kaduna- Abuja highway on Sunday evening.
In a statement on Monday in Kaduna, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan said that the accident involved a commercial DAF trailer.
Aruwan said he accident was caused by speed and burst tyre which made the driver to lose control and veered off the road into the bush
According to him,a total of 53 people were involved in the crash,16 died on the spot while three others were later confirmed dead.
He said 34 sustained various degrees of injuries ranging from bruises and cuts to dislocation and head injuries and were evacuated from the scene by personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC adding that survivors are receiving treatment in hospital.
The driver of the ill-fated trailer, Auwal Idris ,told newsmen that the passengers were picked at Kara by a filling station in Lagos with drop off in Zaria and Kano as final destination.
