Tears flowed ceaselessly in torrents on Thursday when a trailer reportedly crushed an 18-passenger bus along the Umuahia-Enugu end of the Port Harcourt Enugu Highway.
Although all 18 passengers of the bus were feared killed, the number of casualties is yet to be ascertained but it was reported that the truck driver was said to have lost control before ramming into the bus at a police checkpoint.
It was gathered that as the 18-seater commercial bus was waiting for police clearance at the checkpoint, a trailer driver lost control and crashed into the bus, killing the driver and all the passengers.
According to an eyewitness: “The road is blocked by protesting bus drivers and other motorists who are demanding that the policemen who caused the accident be brought back to the scene.
“Colleagues of the bus driver and other road users have taken over the road, demanding Justice for the victims. They vowed to remain there until Governor Alex Otti visits the scene.”
