In what will come across as a really heartbreaking development, a woman heavy with child has been killed in a fatal accident.
A pregnant woman was tragically crushed to death by a tanker driver on Monday.
She was killed along the Minna – Suleja road in Niger State.
According to The Nation, the tanker
driver who was on top speed, sped off after the incident but was
apprehended by the police in Chachanga, some kilometers from the gate of
the College of Education, Minna, the state capital, where the incident
occurred.
It was gathered that the victim was a student of the department of Languages in the institution.
Following the incident, students of the institution blocked the major road in protest of the death of their colleague.
Some students who spoke as eyewitnesses
were quoted to have said that the victim was on a commercial motorcycle
and was about to take a U-turn when the tanker which was on a top speed
came upon them.
The commercial cyclist escaped but the
pregnant woman could not move and upon her arrival at the hospital, she
was confirmed dead.
An official of the Federal Road Safety
Corps, FRSC, who did not want his name mentioned in print, confirmed
that the driver who was earlier apprehended by the FRSC was later handed
over to the Police.
He said after two hours of protest, the
Police were able to calm the students and brought the situation under
control and they also tried to clear the road of traffic.
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