Fatal accident claims 4 lives in Bauchi

      

No fewer than four persons, on Sunday, died in a fatal auto crash in Bauchi state.
The accident occurred at about 2.30 pm at Tashan Durumi on the Bauchi – Jos highway.
The Bauchi State Police Command confirmed the incident on Monday.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, PRO, Haruna Mohammed, in a statement made available to newsmen in Bauchi, said that the accident followed a head on collision between a commercial vehicle and Opel Vectra car.
He said, “Four persons, Abdullahi Mamman, 45, of Takandan, Adamu Saleh, 25, Francis Agolu, a student of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, and Aliyu Umar, 46, from Gombe State died in the crash.

“The deceased included the drivers of the two vehicles,” the PRO said, adding that a police patrol team attached to Toro Division conveyed the victims to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBU), Bauchi.
Meanwhile, seven other occupants of the vehicles were responding to treatment.

The PRO gave the particulars of the vehicles as Opel Vectra, registered TRR 744 BAU and a Volkswagen Sharon with registration number ALK 238 XA, noting that the case was under investigations to ascertain the actual cause of the accident.
He, however, called on members of the public whose relations might have embarked on a journey from Gombe to Bauchi, to visit the hospital for identification of their relatives.