By Mohammed Abubakar, Reporting
Three police officers have lost their lives in a road crash along Kubwa-Zuba expressway, opposite popular Gwarinpa Estate in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Reports say the accident involved men of the Special Tactical Squad (STS) of the Nigerian Police.
Stonix News gathered that the van in which the police squad was headed to Kaduna as escorts for a special assignment and lost one of its tyres in motion.
As a result, the Police Hilux van suddenly veered off the road and dipped into a drainage where three officers died instantly and others seriously injured.
“I was about crossing to the next lane when the police escort van on speed suddenly lost control and crashed into the drainage, leaving three policemen dead,” a witness narrated.
Some officials of the Kubwa unit command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were said to have arrived the scene to evacuate the bodies to an undisclosed hospital.
Spokesperson of FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), who confirmed the incident, described it as a sad one.
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