Five siblings killed as tanker hits school tricycle in Gombe

Five children from the aforesaid household person died aft a h2o tanker crashed into a commercialized tricycle carrying them to schoolhouse successful Gombe State.

The mishap happened connected Tuesday greeting adjacent Kanady Academy, on APC Square successful the Government Reserved Area, GRA, of Gombe metropolis.

The victims were identified arsenic Maryam Mansir Adamu and Usman Mansir Adamu, some Primary Five pupils astatine Jekadafari Primary School; Hauwau Mansir Adamu of Government Junior Secondary School, Jekadafari; Aliyu Mansir Adamu of Government Day Secondary School, Ahmadu Gombe; and Fatima Mansir Adamu, whose schoolhouse was not disclosed.

Three different children sustained injuries successful the clang and were rushed to the infirmary for treatment.

The Gombe State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Samson Kaura, confirmed the incident.

He explained that "officers arrived astatine the country aft the archetypal rescue cognition had been completed."

He said FRSC unit aboriginal visited the infirmary to find the fig of casualties.

Reacting to the tragedy, Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya described the incidental arsenic heartbreaking, saying the decease of 5 children from 1 household was a devastating nonaccomplishment to their parents, relatives, schools and the full state.

In a connection issued by his Director-General of Press Affairs, Ismaila Uba Misilli, the politician said the children died astatine an a...