Mourning in Bauchi as fatal accident claims 25 students, 3 teachers

At least 28 people made up of teachers and students of the Command Junior Secondary school, Misau, Bauchi state, were on Tuesday, February 13, crushed to death by a trailer in a fatal road accident in Gaya local government area of Kano state.

Daily Independent reports that those involved included three teachers and 25 students and that they were in a commercial Toyota vehicle travelling to Gidan Dan Hausa in Kano state for an excursion to one of the FM stations when they had a head-on collision with the trailer.

It was learnt that the vehicles conveying the students and their teachers was trying to avoid a pot hole at Tsamiya Uku village near Gaya Kano state following which it  ran into the articulated vehicle.

A Biology teacher in the school, Ya’u Mohammed, reportedly said 22 of the students and three teachers died on the spot, while three others died on their way to Gaya General Hospital in Darazo.

According to Mohammed, the victims have all been evacuated from the accident scene, and their bodies would be handed over to their various families for burial.

Sabo Mohammed, the special adviser on education to Governor Mohammed Abubakar, described the development as heart-breaking.