Two heavy duty trucks collided with two hummer buses on the ever-busy Owerri–Onitsha expressway in Imo State on Monday as no fewer than 25 people were feared dead after the tragic car crash.
According to a report by Punch, the ghastly accident occured at Catering school Junction and Okpokija Junction, respectively in Irete community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state between 4 and 4: 20 pm interval.
Speaking to a correspondent, an eyewitness who gave his name simply as MC T-Boy, who is an indigene of the community, said that one of the auto crashes involving a commercial hummer bus filled with passengers from Onitsha to Owerri, was crushed by the incoming heavy duty truck conveying empty containers when it tried to overtook it on the expressway .
He said that the eighteen passengers on board, plus the driver and the conductor reportedly died on the spot as the truck folded the bus.
According to the emotionally ridden eyewitness, as if the tragedy was not enough, another one occurred within a space of twenty minutes, this time, killing five persons on the spot, while several others were severely injured.
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