{"id":152878,"date":"2025-02-26T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:06:45","slug":"road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe","title":{"rendered":"Road crash claims ten lives in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ten people have been confirmed dead in a fatal road accident involving a cement truck along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road in Yobe State.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred yesterday when the truck, loaded with cement and passengers, lost control and tumbled into a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses\u2019 accounts, the truck had 13 passengers on board, with 10 succumbing to their injuries at the scene. Three others were rushed to the hospital with varying degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Police Command, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, who confirmed the incident, said preliminary investigations revealed that the truck lost its brakes, colliding with a Sharon car at a checkpoint before drifting off into the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truck, carrying cement and passengers, lost control and crashed into a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the 13 passengers on board, 10 died instantly, while the remaining three were rushed to the Specialists Hospital in Damaturu for treatment,\u201d Abdulkarim said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the driver of the Sharon car, who was alone at the time, survived the accident, although the vehicle sustained significant damage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ten people have been confirmed dead in a fatal road accident involving a cement truck along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road in Yobe State. The accident occurred yesterday when the truck, loaded with cement and passengers, lost control and tumbled into a ditch. According to eyewitnesses\u2019 accounts, the truck had 13 passengers on board, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[254,3406,334],"class_list":["post-152878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigeria","tag-road-crash","tag-yobe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Road crash claims ten lives in Yobe - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ten people have been confirmed dead in a fatal road accident involving a cement truck along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Road crash claims ten lives in Yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ten people have been confirmed dead in a fatal road accident involving a cement truck along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-26T17:21:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-27T22:06:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740583317.124311.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Road crash claims ten lives in Yobe\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-26T17:21:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-27T22:06:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe\"},\"wordCount\":192,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740583317.124311.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"road crash\",\"Yobe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/road-crash-claims-ten-lives-in-yobe\",\"name\":\"Road crash claims ten lives in Yobe - 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