The Niger State Police Command has confirmed the deaths of 23 persons when a truck fully loaded with dozens of cows and 45 persons, skidded off the road and somersaulted into a bush.
The state commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Usman told newsmen in Minna that the accident occurred along Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government area of the state.
Mr Usman explained that the truck, with registration Number BBJ 666 XA, was coming from Dadin Kowa, in Kebbi State, to Lagos when the incident occurred.
He announced that corpses of the deceased, and 22 others who sustained injuries, had been conveyed to the Mokwa General Hospital for postmortem and treatment respectively.
The commissioner of police, who attributed the accident to loss of control by the driver, decried the failure of motorists to obey traffic rules and regulations.
