Nigerian Students killed on their way to school

Reports from nigeria has it that not  fewer than 10 students were on
Wednesday killed in a ghastly  accident on Sheme- Kankara Road in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, northwest Nigeria .

Four other students were injured .
The accident occurred when a truck
conveying the students to Government Day Secondary School in Kankara town collided with an
oncoming truck.

The Malumfashi Unit Commander of Federal Road Safety Commission
(FRSC) , Malam Tijjani Muhammad, said  the accident occurred in the morning when the students were going to school , adding that the truck was also carrying timber .
File photo: an accident on one of
Nigeria ’ s roads.

According to him , the truck was
coming from Sheme and going to
Kankara while the other vehicle was
from Kankara going to Sheme junction .

He said the rescued victims and the
dead were taken to Kankara General Hospital.

An eyewitness , Malam Umar Tanko, said the victims were residents of different villages studying at Kankara and boarded vehicles daily on the road.

Tanko said the students were
sitting on top of the timber when the accident occurred , adding that logs of timber fell on them .

Also the Kankara General Hospital
register indicated that the survivors
and the dead had been evacuated by their respective families .

Government Day Secondary School ,
Kankara, was shut to mourn the dead  students .