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A tall and large billboard collapsed on some tricycles carrying passengers in Aba, Abia State, on Wednesday, resulting in injuries to many passengers, with some feared dead.
The incident happened in the afternoon at the Salad Market junction near the GIA Event Centre during a rainfall that came with strong winds.
A resident who witnessed the incident said that some tricycles carrying passengers were trapped under the heavy billboard, resulting in the death of some of the passengers on the spot, while those alive groaned and called for help.
No official confirmation has been made by concerned authorities about the incident or the actual number of casualties at the time of filing this report, but engineers and other sympathising residents of Aba who arrived at the scene pulled out the victims from under the billboard.
The Eastern Updates learnt that the injured passengers have been rushed to the hospital for treatment, while those who died were taken to the mortuary.
Two people have been confirmed dead in an accident that occurred along the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway on Sunday.
The accident, which happened at about 7:15 am before Danco Filling Station, involved a Toyota Sienna bus registered as EPE 430 HT and a stationary luxury bus belonging to Young Shall Grow Transport Company, with registration number KTU 835 XY.
The Eastern Updates gathered that the luxury bus, driven by Chukwudi Ilo of Anambra State, had stopped in traffic behind other vehicles due to a minor accident ahead when the Toyota Sienna, travelling at high speed, lost control and crashed into its rear.
