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    Horror: 19 passengers roast to death on Abuja road crash

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    By Francis Ekeh

    Nineteen people have been confirmed dead and eight others injured in a fatal road accident that occurred at the early hours of Sunday at Yangoji-Gwagwalada Highway of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja

    The accident which happened at about 12:40 midnight of Sunday involved three vehicles along National Agricultural Seeds council, Pai Junction, Gwagwalada, Abuja.

    Confirming the sad incident to Newsmen at the scene of the accident, Acting Corps Marshal Dauda Ali-Biu said two Toyota Hiance buses and a Citeron trailer conveying animal feeds collided on motion and bursted into flames and killed the whole passengers on board.

    According to the acting Corps Marshal, the 19 corpses were trapped but extricated by rescue operatives of zebra 6 Yangoji.

    He said the Nigerian Police Force Kwali division and Personnel of FRSC had commenced investigation and met relevant authorities for the mass burial of the remains of the nineteen extricated mutilated

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