FOURTEEN Boys Brigade members were crushed to death Saturday morning when a Peugeot 505 Station Wagon ran into them along Barkin Ladi Local Government Council of Plateau State.
The youths had been performing a jogging exercise
According to an eyewitness, Yakal Tigana, a former Councillor in Barkin Ladi, the car, loaded with bags of maize, was coming from Bokkos Local Government Council.
Nine others who sustained injuries, some of them critically, were taken to the Barkin Ladi General Hospital for treatment.
Tigana said the youths involved in the jogging exercise were about 40, adding that the State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak, who immediately rushed to the scene, directed that the injured be rushed to the Barkin Ladi General Hospital and those who died on the spot taken to the morgue at Plateau Specialist Hospital.
According to him, the Management Committee Chairman of Barkin Ladi, Dr. Emmanuel Loman, member representing the council in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Kaneng Gyang Fulani, and Commissioner for Urban Development, Solomon Maren, rushed to the scene to offer a helping hand.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Deputy Superintendent Felicia Anslem, confirmed the casualty figure to journalists yesterday on phone.
Following the incident, furious youths went wild with protest and blocked the road linking Bokkos and Barkin Ladi. It took the intervention of security agencies to disperse them.
The deceased were members of three churches: Baptist Church, Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) and Assembly of God Church.
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