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No fewer than 10 passengers, among them two babies, have been killed following an auto crash at Apu na ekpu area, near the Umuika Junction, Abia State, on the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway.
According to an eyewitnesses account, the accident occurred when a Toyota Sienna bus belonging to a transport company in the state, which was fully loaded with passengers, lost control and collided with a truck before crashing into the bush.
The bus, said to be heading to Umuahia was on high speed, lost control and rammed into the moving truck.
At press time, sympathisers were assisting the men of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to convey the dead bodies to the morgue.
