The Police Command in Kaduna State has debunked the story
making the rounds on social media that gunmen killed sixteen travellers on the
Abuja-Kaduna highway on Tuesday as fake.
Umar Muri, the state’s Commissioner of Police, said in a
statement on Friday that there was a lone accident on the Kaduna-Zaria
expressway involving a commercial bus conveying 19 passengers from Kano State
to Abuja.
He noted that the driver lost control at a point at
Rigachukun, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna and the bus somersaulted
killing 9 of the passengers while 10 others sustained varying degrees of
injuries.
According to Muri, the victims were rushed to a hospital at Kakuri, Kaduna State, where 7 other victims died.
“The remaining three victims are still undergoing
treatment,” Muri said.
“We implore the general public to discontinue the
attribution of this painful loss of lives to banditry.”
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