25 students, 3 teachers crushed to death

25 students, 3 teachers crushed to death

•Trailer runs over school bus in Kano

Paul Orude, Bauchi

No fewer than 28 people including 25 students, three teachers of Government Comprehensive Day Secondary School (GCDSS), Misau, Bauchi State, and a driver, were crushed to death by a trailer yesterday.

Daily Sun gathered that the students and their teachers were travelling to Gidan Dan Hausa, Kano, Kano State, for an excursion inside a commercial Hummer Toyoto bus, when they had a collision with the trailer at about 10am.

The accident occurred at Gaya village in Kano State, and the victims were Junior Secondary School (JSS) 1 and 2 students of GCDSS, Misau,  with three of their teachers.

The bus was coming from Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

An eyewitness, Ibrahim Adamu, said the bus had a head-on collision with an articulated vehicle carrying tomatoes while they were both trying to avoid a pothole at Samia Uku village.

A teacher from the school, Ya’u Mohammed, who teaches Biology, said  22 of the students and three teachers died on the spot while three of the students died on their way to the hospital in Darazo.

When contacted, Head of Operations, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Bauchi State Command, Mr. Paul Guar, confirmed the accident, saying that it occurred at Gaya, which is under the jurisdiction of Jigawa State Command.

Ya’u said the victims were evacuated from the accident scene and their corpses on their way to Misau where they would be handed over to their families for burial.

The school principal could not be reached at the time of this report, but another teacher, Mohammed Kaka, said it was a sad period for the school management.

“We lost three of our dedicated and intelligent teachers and the students who died were quite promising, it is a sad one,” he said.

Commissioner for Education, Nuhu Gidadi, who is also the Deputy Govrnor, could not equally be reached.