Seven persons were feared killed while 12 sustained serious injuries when an articulated truck belonging to Dangote Cement Company rammed into a market in Ihiala, Anambra State.
Daily Trust learnt that the incident happened around 3pm when the trailer loaded with cement lost control and veered of the road around Total Filling Station, killing the persons on the spot.
“A Dangote truck fully loaded with cement inexplicably veered of the road and plunged inside the gutter facing that first bank,” a witness said, adding that the casualties were mostly youths hawking gala, pure water and chips, as well as old women selling okpa, bread and the rest.
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) who pleaded anonymity, gave the casualty figure as three, saying the corpses had been deposited at Our Lady of Loudres mortuary, Ihiala.
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