Nigeria: 16 Escape Death in Auto Crash

14 July 2008

About 16 persons at the weekend narrowly cheated death as the commuter bus in which they were travelling plunged into the crater created by devastating gully erosion along the Owerri-Umuahia federal highway.

Commenting on the near-ugly incident when Vanguard contacted him, Imo State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Angus Obum Ibezim, said that none of the passengers was reported dead.

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