Seventeen passengers have died out of eighteen persons that boarded an 18 seater hummer bus when the bus swept inside a culvert at Lagos park axis of Enugu-Onitsha express road in Onitsha, Anambra State.
It was gathered that the accident happened on Monday following a heavy downpour on Sunday night.
The driver of the vehicle, Mr Okechukwu Anene was among persons who were killed while his wife was the only surviving person and was rushed to the Toronto hospital, Upper Iweka in Onitsha, Anambra State where she’s getting medical attention.
The culvert which was filled with debris and concrete had to be broken before victims were pulled out.
