The Police
Command in Enugu have confirmed the death of a family of seven in an autocrash
which occurred at Ugwu-Onyeama on the Enugu-Onitsha expressway on Sunday
morning.
The Police
Public Relations Officer in the state, Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the
incident in a statement on Sunday, said it occurred at about 8 a.m. on the
Enugu axis of the expressway.
Mr Amaraizu
said the accident involved a Toyota Camry with registration number CM960FKJ and
a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number ENU75YY, belonging to a mass
transit company.
He said that
the two vehicles that were on top speed collided in one lane of the expressway.
According to
him, seven passengers in the Toyota car who are members of the same family and
one other from the bus lost their lives in the accident.
The police
spokesperson said that their bodies had been deposited in the mortuary of the
Enugu State University of Teaching Hopsital, (ESUTH), Parklane.
He said four
others sustained injuries in the crash and were receiving medical attention at
the same hospital while investigation into the incident had commenced.
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