The accident that occurred on Monday along Ungwan Rogo road in the state capital claimed the life of four police officers while 30 others were injured in a ghastly auto-crash in Sokoto while returning from a shooting range exercise.
According to Mr Ibrahim
Abaras, Police Public Relations Officer of the Sokoto Command, who confirmed the accident said "the
fatal accident which occurred at about 7:30 pm involved newly recruited officers of the Force who were participating in a training at the Police College, Sokoto".
”They were returning from a shooting range exercise at
Kware local government of the state when the accident occurred close to
the Sokoto History Bureau.
"The corpses of the deceased had been handed to their respective families and buried accordingly".
"However, those who sustained various degrees of injuries were taken to the Usmanu Danfodiyo Teaching Hospital(UDUTH), Police Clinic and Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Kware all in Sokoto where they were being treated".
"The PPRO also said the State Police Commissioner,
Muhammad Abdulkadir, Sokoto state Deputy Governor, Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto
including other members of the public participated actively in
evacuating the victims at the scene of the accident which he said was
the first of its kind in the state".
"He said the state government had offered to provide all necessary logistics support to the victims".
Credit:The Nation
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