No fewer than 25 people were feared dead on the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway in Imo State after two heavy-duty trucks collided with two hummer buses in separate accidents. The tragedies happened on Monday at Catering School Junction and Okpokija Junction respectively in Irete community, in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state between 4pm and 4.20pm.
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An eyewitness, who gave his name simply as MC T-Boy, told Punch correspondent at the scene of one of the crashes that a commercial Hummer bus, filled with passengers from Onitsha to Owerri, was crushed by a heavy-duty truck conveying empty containers when it (bus) tried to overtake it on the expressway. He said all the 18 passengers on board, the driver and the conductor died on the spot. He said, “As if that was not enough, another one occurred within a space of 20 minutes. About five persons died on the spot in the second accident, while several others were injured.
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