Five Nigerians who went their daily business today, has met their untimely death as a trailer loaded with cement brutally sent them to their early grave.
According to an exclusive report on
Idoma Voice, no fewer than five persons have been crushed to death by a trailer belonging to billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote Group of Companies after colliding with a Bedford truck in Ikwo village along the ever busy Auchi-Benin road.
It was gathered from an eyewitness who is currently at the scene of the incident which happened at about 1:00pm on Thursday, that the driver of the Dangote trailer was heading to Warri from Obajana Cement Factory when the incident occurred.
He added that the driver lost control and rammed into the Bedford Truck conveying wood while ascending the Ikwo hill and somersaulted severally, trapping five of its occupants to death. "We are trying to rescue the victims at the moment," he told a reporter.