About four people are reported dead following the ghastly accident involving a Toyota Hilux conveying a detachment of vigilantes, accompanying the Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri to campaign engagement in Mubi.
The accident occurred around Fadamareke, in Hong Local Government.
It was not certain what caused the accident but there were indications that over-speeding by the convoy while negotiating a dangerous was responsible
It was learnt that the accident involved a Ramp 2 Hilux van used by Head of Fintiri’s vigilante.
Three bodies of occupants in the van including the head of PDP’s informal security arm, Bako Kaura, and another victim identified as Adamu, Kaura’s biological son have been deposited at the mortuary of Hong Federal Medical Centre.
Other five occupants in the van who sustained various degree of injuries, were taken away in two government house ambulances for treatment in a health facility.
Governor Fintiri’s personal physician and head of the government house clinic, Dr. William Teri, were among the first responders at the crash and took the victims to a hospital for treatment.
An eyewitness at the scene of the accident who assisted in the evacuation and rescue efforts said he saw three lifeless bodies adding that the fourth person collapsed into coma.
“I took out three lifeless bodies, but there’s a fourth that I think can hardly make it out of coma because of the injury he sustained. There were about nine occupants in the Ramp 2 Hilux van the head of vigilantes for Fintiri/Farauta campaign involved in the accident was traveling in.”
Meanwhile, Governor Fintiri is disturbed by the tragic death involving his convoy.
Recall that last week, around the high brow, Dougirei Hilltop Agga Mosque, where the governor had gone to attend a wedding engagement, a truck lost control and rammed into Governor Fintiri’s stationary motorcade leaving two vehicles on his convoy crushed by the truck as he narrowly escaped death.
Two policemen sustained fatal injuries from the crash, and were rushed to intensive care unit of the state specialist hospital.