At least ten persons were yesterday killed in an accident at Dambatta, Kano State.
Witnesses said the incident happened when a bus conveying passengers from Kazaure, Jigawa State, attempted to avoid crushing a mad man and in the process crashed into a bus carrying vegetables.
They added that ten bodies were carried to Dambatta General Hospital in Kano, while some relations had collected corpses for burial.
Sources hinted that the mad man, who was yet to be identified, had been remanded in a police station.
Confirming the incident, the sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Alhaji Ahmad Kogari, said 17 people, including eight females and a child, were involved in the accident.
According to him, the driver of a model F Toyota vehicle veered off its lane while trying to avoid ramming into the lunatic and crashed into another vehicle.
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