Many people were injured, when a 40ft container, yesterday morning fell off a truck and landed on top of vehicles at Aba-Ogbo Hill Waterside bridge along the Aba- Ikot Ekene Expressway.
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The Guardian learnt that the incident involved an unmarked heavy-duty truck, a Coaster bus belonging to Anambra State government Transport Company, with registration number Akwa Ibom UYY 74 XA, a commercial Sienna car, and commercial tricycles.
 
Special Adviser to Abia State governor on Aba Rejuvenation, Uche Ukeje, and his Homeland Security counterpart, Chukwuenye Nwaogu Alajemba, were among those people who visited the scene to provide assistance for the injured.
 
Some survivors, Sunday Ikechukwu and Miracle Okechukwu, thanked God for escaping by the whiskers.Okechukwu, who sustained minor injury, said he was coming from Arochukwu with the Sienna vehicle, when the container fell, shortly after the driver dropped two passengers on the bridge bus stop.
 
He said he couldn’t account for other passengers. “Before embarking on the journey, I had a premonition of danger because I perceived blood while brushing my teeth. I told my wife that I will cancel the journey, but my wife encouraged me to travel, that nothing bad would happen.
 
“While our driver struggled to come out, I managed to come out through the window and helped a lady, who sustained little injury in the car. 
“But a man and his wife, who were in the front seat, were not so lucky as the container fell directly on their legs,” he said.  Confirming the incident, the two governor’s aides blamed the incident on mechanical fault.
 
They said that the state government was making efforts to limit the movement of heavy-duty trucks in Aba within specific hours. They assured that the government would pick the hospital bills of the injured persons, who were receiving treatment at an undiscovered government hospital in Aba.
 
When contacted, the Officer-in-Charge of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Abia, Bridget Asekhauno, said the number of casualties was yet to be ascertained.
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