At least 20 athletes from the Kano State contingent have been confirmed dead following a ghastly motor accident at the Dakatsalle Bridge in the Kura Local Government area of Kano State.
The athletes were returning from the just concluded National Sports Festival which ended in Abeokuta, Ogun State late on Thursday.
The Chairman of the Kano State Sports Commission, Umar Fagge, who confirmed the incident, said many other athletes sustained various degrees of injuries following the accident on Saturday.
He explained that the bus conveying 30 athletes fell from the bridge, leading to the death of the 20 athletes.
“As I am talking to you now, we have counted 19 dead bodies,” Fagge The Punch.
Extrasportnigeria.wordpress.com can confirm that there is a video already trending on social media which suggests that the coaster bus might have skipped off the bridge to the ground, prompting fatal accident.
Similarly, Ado Salisu, a former Vice President of SWAN, said victims were still being conveyed to Kura General Hospital.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Kano Sector Command, Abdullahi Labaran, also confirmed the accident.
He however said that he could not confirm the number of deaths and injured persons.
“We just received the report of the accident, so, I cannot confirm the exact number of casualties at the moment,” he added.
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