A commercial car driver has reportedly rammed into four members of a family and killed all in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
A local who witnessed the incident said that the incident happened on Sunday evening when the driver hit the motorcycle carrying the victims with his car.
The victims all died on the spot, the local disclosed.
A spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Jigawa State, confirmed the incident in a press statement on Monday.
According to him: “A fatal accident occurred yesterday, Sunday, May 21, at around 5 pm in Babura Town, along Babura-Gumel Road, and four people died on the spot.”
The tragedy reportedly occurred when the driver of the commercial vehicle, Hamisu Ahmed, travelling to Gumel at high speed, hit the victims, who were on a motorcycle on the way to their village, Kolori.
The victims, identified as 45-year-old Gambo Mutari, his 25-year-old wife, Fiddausi Abdullah, his mother-in-law, Hauwa Maigari, and their two-year-old child, were rushed to the Babura General Hospital and confirmed dead.
The deceased have been buried according to Islamic rites.
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