{"id":49437,"date":"2024-09-17T17:04:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/road-accident-kills-five-leaves-12-critically-injured-in-jigawa\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:04:32","slug":"road-accident-kills-five-leaves-12-critically-injured-in-jigawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/road-accident-kills-five-leaves-12-critically-injured-in-jigawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Road accident kills five, leaves 12 critically injured in Jigawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Five persons have died and twelve others sustained various degrees of injuries in a road accident along the Shiwarin -Kano road in Jigawa State.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses told DAILY POST that the incident happened on Monday when the tyre of a Toyota bus coming from Kano heading to Azare burst.<\/p>\n<p>He said the driver lost control and the vehicle somersaulted, killing some passengers while others sustained various degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman of the command DSP. Lawan Shiisu Adam confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201d the incident happened on Monday at about 2340hrs, a distress call was received at Kiyawa Division that there was a lone motor vehicle accident along Shuwarin to Kano road when a Toyota bus with reg no. KTG 219 XB, driven by one Alh Umar of Chinade town, Azare LGA, Bauchi state who was from Kano heading to Azare with seventeen (17) passengers on board\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn reaching a point at Dantata and Sawoe Construction Company, Shuwarin village, Kiyawa LGA, one of the rear tyres burst and the vehicle somersaulted, as a result of which five (5) passengers namely died \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dead are Suleiman Sani, Hassan Salisu, Khalid Ibrahim, Rabiu Salihu and Shehu Mohd all of Chinade town, Azare LGA.<\/p>\n<p>DSP. Shiisu said following receipt of the report, the scene was visited and the victims as well as corpses were taken to the Rasheed Shekoni Teaching Hospital Dutse, where Doctors confirmed them dead.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Corpse were later released to their relatives for burial.<\/p>\n<p>Road accident kills five, leaves 12 critically injured in Jigawa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five persons have died and twelve others sustained various degrees of injuries in a road accident along the Shiwarin -Kano&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6577,814,384,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accident","category-jigawa","category-metro","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}