LOKOJA—Eight persons, including a child, were killed in a road accident on the Lokoja-Abuja highway, yesterday.
The victims, including four women and three men, were said to be on their way to Okene from Kano.

The accident which happened at about 6.00 a.m. at Ohono village, near Koton Karfe, involved a white Toyota passenger bus and a truck with number plate Lagos EKY 244 XG.

The Kogi FRSC Sector Commander, Mr Godwin Omiko, told newsmen that the truck was on high speed when the Toyota passenger bus with number plate Kogi XB 641 LKJ from Abuja rammed into it, killing the eight persons on the spot.
Omiko said that a passenger was fatally wounded, adding that the corpses and the injured were taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.