The Police Command in Niger State says 23 persons lost their lives when a truck fully loaded with dozens of cows and 45 persons, skidded off the road and somersaulted into a bush .
The accident occurred at about 0500 hours along Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state, according to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Usman , who confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna , on Monday .
Usman said the truck , with registration Number BBJ 666 XA, was coming from Dadin Kowa, in Kebbi state, en route to Lagos when the incident occurred, explaining that the corpses of the deceased , and the other 22 who sustained various degree of injuries , had been conveyed to the Mokwa General Hospital for postmortem and treatment respectively .
Usman , who attributed the accident to loss of control by the driver, lamented the failure of drivers to obey traffic rules and regulations.
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