A collision between a tipper truck and a Coaster bus belonging to the Lord's Chosen Charismatic Renewal Movement in Imo State is said to have claimed the lives of at least five people. The sad incident happened on Friday morning, causing a serious traffic jam on the ever-busy Owerri-Onitsha Road.
The bus and the tipper truck collided while they were travelling in the same direction, crashing into a Coca-Cola outlet in Orogwe, within the state's Owerri West Local Government Area.
Speaking with reporters at the site, eyewitnesses reported that five people died instantly and were taken to a local hospital by ambulance.
It was also reported that there were still some people trapped beneath the bus.
A resident of the Orogwe community who wished to remain anonymous claimed that while several passengers of the bus sustained injuries, some of them died.
“It was actually the Lord’s Chosen’s driver’s fault. He wanted to overtake the tipper without considering the narrowness of the road. As I speak, so many people are still stacked under the Lord’s Chosen’s vehicle.
“We have tried to pull the vehicle out to no avail. We have used a heavy-duty vehicle to pull it out to see if there are some people under it, no way.”
Attempts to speak with Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) personnel at the scene of the incident proved abortive because they declined to answer questions.
