No fewer than six people lost their lives and ten others sustained fatal injuries in Jos Plateau State, when a lorry driver lost control and rammed into vehicles and commercial tricycles with passengers on board.

The sad incident occurred on few days ago at about 7:00 pm when a driver of a MAN DIESEL lorry conveying maize from Saminaka in Kaduna State to Onitsha suddenly lost control as a result of brake failure at Farin Gada area of Jos North local government area of the state, causing confusion and pandemonium in the area.

An eye witness said while the driver was struggling to control the vehicle, it rammed into three tricycles loaded with passengers and three other cars parked along the same road and crushed them adding that six people died on the spot while ten others sustained various degree of injuries.

It was further learnt that it took men of the Special Task Force and other Samaritans who dashed to the scene of the incident more than one two hours before the bodies of those trapped under the lorry could be retrieved.

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6 people killed, 10 others injured as truck lost control in Jos