Four members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), a soldier, and another passenger have died in a fatal road accident along the Girei–Song highway in Adamawa state.
The crash involved a military gun truck travelling from Gombi to Yola and a commercial Hummer bus heading from Yola to Mubi. Eyewitnesses said the collision caused the bus to overturn and burst into flames, trapping all occupants inside.
Confirming the incident, SP Suleiman Ngurore, the spokesperson of the Adamawa state police command said the accident occurred around 1:50 p.m. in the Narehi area of Girei Local Government Area.
According to him, all five passengers in the bus were burnt to death after the vehicle caught fire following the impact.
Preliminary identification showed that four of the deceased were NYSC members deployed to Adamawa State.
Two of them were identified as Suleiman Juliet and Usman Shuaibu, both from Kaduna State, while efforts are ongoing to confirm the identities of the remaining victims.
The police also confirmed that a soldier in the military vehicle died in the crash. Emergency responders and police officers were deployed to the scene, and the bodies were evacuated to the Specialist hospital in Yola.
Authorities said investigations are ongoing and families of the deceased will be contacted once identification is completed.