Twenty-one persons have been killed and one injured after a bridge on the Gwaram/Basirka road in Jigawa State collapsed.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Yusuf Wakili, said the victims were coming from Kano, where they went for recruitment screening into the Nigerian Army.
“It involved one Hummer bus with reg no. FYK 406 ZA Gombe State conveying 18 passengers from Kano State to Adamawa State and a Canter lorry reg no. not found, conveying 3 passengers destination not known yet, fell into broken culvert full of water,” he stated.
He said from documents found on the victims, eight of them were from Adamawa, while one came from Taraba and others Borno states
Meanwhile, the State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Namadi, have visited the scene of the incident. to journalists on Sunday.
While speaking with Journalists on Sunday ,he said identification of the victims has started.
He explained that the corpses whose identities cannot be ascertained will be moved to a mortuary in Dutse the state capital.
