Four Police Officers
were feared dead, with 30 others injured in a ghastly auto-crash in Sokoto on
Monday.
Spokesman of the State
Police Command, Mr Ibrahim Abaras, who confirmed the incident, said the fatal
accident occurred at about 7:30pm, along Ungwan Rogo road in the state
capital.
Abaras, said the accident involved
newly recruited officers of the Force who were participating in a training at
the Police College, Sokoto.
He said ” They were
returning from a shooting range exercise at Kware local government of the state
when the accident occurred close to the Sokoto History Bureau.
He added that the
corpses of the deceased had been handed to their respective families and buried
accordingly.
The spokesman noted
that those who sustained various degrees of injuries were taken to the Usmanu
Danfodiyo Teaching Hospital(UDUTH), Police Clinic and Federal Neuro-Psychiatric
Hospital, Kware all in Sokoto where they were being treated.
He added that the
State Police Commissioner, Muhammad Abdulkadir, Sokoto state Deputy
Governor, Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto and members of the public participated actively in
evacuating the victims at the scene of the accident which he said was the first
of its kind in the state.
He added that the
state government had offered to provide all necessary logistics support to the
victims.
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