Barely three days after last weekend’s auto crash that claimed seven lives and injured 20 at Upper Iweka in Onitsha, six persons were, yesterday, feared dead in fresh accident involving a petrol tanker and commercial buses on the Enugu/Onitsha expressway.
The exact spot of the crash was the Building Materials International Market, Ogidi in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State. The accident, according to a source, occurred when the propeller of a petrol tanker laden with petroleum products pulled off, making the tanker to ram into some commercial buses waiting for passengers on Onitsha/Enugu expressway and consequently crushed some vehicles and hawkers.
It was gathered that the driver of the vehicle heading from Enugu, in the ensuing confusion, escaped unnoticed.