Truck evading police crushes two lecturers, a wife and their three children to death

Following a car accident involving a truck, at Gbatse community along Ugbema-Adikpo Road in the Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State, two lecturers of University of Mkar, and seven other persons have lost their lives

It is reported that the incident happened on Saturday, October 10,2020, around 5pm, when a truck crushed a Toyota Camry car with number plate, MKD 300 NH, in which the victims were occupants.

According to an eyewitness, the truck was conveying a car and the driver wanted to escape from a police checkpoint when he rammed into the waiting car, killing all the occupants.

Some documents recovered from the scene of the accident, identified the lecturers as Mr Josua Leva of Mass Communication Department, and Moses Tarnongo, who along his wife and children died in the accident.