By Daniel Tyokua
No fewer than four persons have been crushed to death with several others injured on Tuesday, when trailer conveying bags of fertilizer suffered a break failure in Nyanya area of Abuja.
The trailer squeezed a car and its occupants beyond recognition.
According to an eyewitness, driver of the trailer; lost control over the vehicle while descending from the Kugbo hill on Abuja-Keffi highway.
Unable to stop the speedy vehicle which was headed towards Keffi; small cars in front of it became its wedging tools as the trailer smashed vehicle after vehicle until it squeezed a Honda accord car to a metal pillar where it eventually came to a halt
This left the bodies of the four occupants dismembered, while survivors from the other affected cars were also left with various degrees of injury.
Men of the Federal Road Safety Corps and sympathisers who rushed to the scene to rescue possible surviving victims were left shocked and clueless after meeting dismembered body parts in the mangled car with no room to pull them out.
Body parts such as head, leg and intestines also littered the ground at the scene of the accident.
officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps were still making efforts to cut open the mangled car to enable them pick the pieces of the crushed remains of victims as at the time of filing this report.
