{"id":7086,"date":"2023-05-21T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2023-05-21T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:42:02","slug":"many-feared-dead-in-lokoja-abuja-auto-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/many-feared-dead-in-lokoja-abuja-auto-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Feared Dead in Lokoja-Abuja Auto Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many people have been reportedly burnt to death in an accident along Lokoja-Abuja highway in Kogi State.<\/p>\n
An eyewitness said accident involving two trailers and several other commercial vehicles has reportedly occurred in the early hours of Sunday on the highway killing a yet to be ascertained number of commuters.<\/p>\n
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According to reports, an articulated vehicle coming from the Abuja-end of the highway was overtaking another vehicle after which it lost control and rammed into another tanker traveling towards Abuja, and laden with inflammable resulting into explosion.<\/p>\n
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The incident happened in front of the Local Government Council Secretariat, by the Federal Roads Safety Corps office in Koton-karfe.<\/p>\n
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All efforts to contact the FRSC for confirmation of the development proved abortive as its phone lines were not reachable.<\/p>\n
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The source however said personnel of the Nigeria Army were on ground to control traffic gridlock and to ease the free flow of traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many people have been reportedly burnt to death in an accident along Lokoja-Abuja highway in Kogi State.\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-7086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi","8":"tag-lokoja-abuja"},"yoast_head":"\n