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No fewer than fourteen persons were killed on Wednesday in an accident involving an articulated truck and a commercial bus along the Obajana-Lokoja Road in Kogi State.
A statement from the state commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo, said the state government sympathised with the families of the victims.
The commissioner explained that preliminary reports showed that the accident involved a bus and a truck conveying cement from Obajana.
Men of the Federal Road Safety Corps have been alerted and bodies of the deceased have been evacuated from the scene of the accident.