The Bauchi
State Police Command said on Monday that four persons died in an auto crash on
the Jos - Bauchi Road.
Haruna Mohammed, the command’s Public Relations
Officer, in a statement in Bauchi, said that the accident followed a head on
collision between a commercial vehicle and Opel Vectra car.
Mohammed gave the particulars of the vehicles as
Opel Vectra, registered TRR 744 BAU and a Volkswagen Sharon with registration
number ALK 238 XA.
He explained that the accident occurred at about
2.30 pm on Sunday at Tashan Durumi on the Bauchi - Jos highway.
Mohammed said that a police patrol team attached to
Toro Division conveyed the victims to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
Teaching Hospital (ATBU), Bauchi.
He said that four persons, including drivers of the
two vehicles were later certified dead by a medical doctor, while seven other
occupants of the vehicles were responding to treatment.
Mohammed gave the names of the four deceased persons
as 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.
The spokesman 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.
He said that the case was under investigations to
ascertain the actual cause of the accident.
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