The Federal Roads Safety Commission in Sokoto State says it is yet to identify those who died in a road accident on Friday at Dange along the Funtua-Gusau-Sokoto Road.
Its Public Relations Officer, Karatu Ayuba, said on Saturday in Sokoto however that the commission’s officers had been mobilised to the scene of the accident.
Ayuba said none of the occupants of the car could be saved, saying: “The details and the number of the occupants who died in it will be made available later.”
An eyewitness had told the News Agency of Nigeria that the driver of the car had allegedly rammed into a parked articulated vehicle.
The driver of the car was said to have been driving to Sokoto from Gusau with members of his family at around 8pm on Friday.
The articulated vehicle was said to have been left on the highway since Friday afternoon.
Another eyewitness, Alhaji Bello Danjuma, told NAN that nobody could ascertain the real number of people in the burnt car.
“The two vehicles caught fire after the car rammed into the articulated vehicle and nobody was there to rescue the occupants immediately, although the fire service personnel arrived at the scene later,” Danjuma said.
El-Mustapha Sani, the spokesman of the Nigeria Police in Sokoto State, however, said the driver of the articulated vehicle had been arrested.
“We have just recovered a cellular telephone from the car and we will do all we can to verify the identities of the occupants,” Sani said.
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