No fewer than 28 people including 25
students, three teachers of Government Comprehensive Day Secondary School
(GCDSS), Misau, Bauchi State, and a driver, were crushed to death by a trailer
yesterday.
Daily
Sun gathered that the students and their teachers were travelling to Gidan Dan
Hausa, Kano, Kano State, for an excursion inside a commercial Hummer Toyoto
bus, when they had a collision with the trailer at about 10am.
The
accident occurred at Gaya village in Kano State, and the victims were Junior
Secondary School (JSS) 1 and 2 students of GCDSS, Misau, with three of their
teachers.
The bus
was coming from Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
An
eyewitness, Ibrahim Adamu, said the bus had a head-on collision with an
articulated vehicle carrying tomatoes while they were both trying to avoid a
pothole at Samia Uku village.
A
teacher from the school, Ya’u Mohammed, who teaches Biology, said 22 of
the students and three teachers died on the spot while three of the students
died on their way to the hospital in Darazo.
When
contacted, Head of Operations, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Bauchi State
Command, Mr. Paul Guar, confirmed the accident, saying that it occurred at
Gaya, which is under the jurisdiction of Jigawa State Command.
Ya’u
said the victims were evacuated from the accident scene and their corpses on
their way to Misau where they would be handed over to their families for burial.
The
school principal could not be reached at the time of this report, but another
teacher, Mohammed Kaka, said it was a sad period for the school management.
“We lost
three of our dedicated and intelligent teachers and the students who died were
quite promising, it is a sad one,” he said.
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Sun News
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