One person has been confirmed dead and five others terribly injured when celebrity towncrier Mr Aiza Nwosu got involved in a fatal lone car accident at the popular Aroma junction in Awka, the state capital of Anambra State.
Eyewitness accounts had it that the Celebrity Town Crier was driving in his SUV vehicle passing through the ever-busy Aroma junction when the vehicle allegedly lost control and ran into pedestrians waiting to catch a bus towards the Government House Awka.
It was confirmed that out of six people, including a Keke Tricycle operator, six were hit by the vehicle, which allegedly ran through the bystanders before crashing into the road embankment alone on the Onitsha-Awka-Enugu motorway.
The accident victims were taken to the Chukwuemaka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital, along with Mr Aiza Nwosu, the town crier, who was also injured in the accident.
At the Teaching Hospital, members of the public were not allowed to enter the emergency department of the facility as security operatives urged them to leave the compound in order not to distract the medical personnel who were battling to save the lives of the victims.
A few hours later, some members of the public who witnessed the accident started crying upon hearing that one of the victims had died.
So far, the names of the victims and their home addresses are not yet known, as the management of the teaching hospital has promised to contact their relatives through the last phone calls they received or made before the accident occurred, while members of the Anambra Capital Territory Development Agency (ACTDA) were seen clearing the vehicle from the road.
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