No fewer than 15 Jehovah’s Witness worshippers yesterday d!ed in a road crash at Awomama Bridge in Imo State
The accident occurred about 6.45 p.m. at a deplorable spot on Awomama Bridge in the state.
The victims, from Agwa community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, were in a bus returning from the annual Jehovah’s Witness Assembly Convention in Uli, Anambra State, when a trailer coming from a one-way traffic lane collided with the bus conveying the worshippers, k!lling all the passengers.
Their bodies have been deposited in a morgue.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Oguta Local Government Area, Ifeanyi Nnani, in a statement on Tuesday, expressed shock over the ghastly accident that claimed the lives of people from his area.
The statement, signed by his aide, Orum Desmond, commiserated with the family members of the deceased.
