Thirteen people were on Tuesday morning confirmed killed in a ghastly motor accident along Kaduna-Kano Express way.
Several passengers also sustained various degrees of injury in the accident involving a Macopolo luxurious bus and four other vehicles.
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Our correspondent gathered that the auto crash occurred around a village called Jar-marmara in Ikara local government area of Kaduna State.
An eye witness, who identified himself as Malam Sani Haruna, told our correspondent that, “the Luxurious Bus lost control and collided with four cars, in which 16 people died on the spot.
“The four cars were condemned.”
It was gathered that the bus left Lagos, heading to Kano on Monday evening, before getting involved in the accident in the early hours of Tuesday few kilometres to its destination.
Our correspondent learnt that many of the passengers in the bus, who sustained various degrees of injuries, were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Kaduna Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Hafiz Mohammed, confirmed the incident and the casualty figure to our correspondent.
