Cargo falls off truck, kills woman in Aba

By OKEY SAMPSON, Aba on May 12, 2014.

Tragedy struck at the weekend in Aba, Abia State, when one of the bales of second-hand clothes popularly known as okirika, being con­veyed by a cargo truck fell off and killed a wom­an.
It was gathered that the truck was conveying the bales of used clothes from a warehouse in the city to Ngwa Road market when the incident occurred.
According to sources, the driver, identified as Ogbonnaya, was negotiat­ing a bend into the mar­ket through one of its en­trances, when the bale fell off the truck and hit the woman.
The victim, whose iden­tity could not be ascer­tained immediately and was said to have come to the market to make some purchases died on the spot.
A source said: “Nobody knew who she was when the incident occurred, but since she was not identi­fied as one of the traders in the market, it means she could be one of those who came to that section of the market to buy second-hand clothes in commercial quantity.”
The body of the vic­tim was later deposited at an undisclosed mortu­ary, while the truck driver was arrested by policemen from Ndiegoro Police Di­vision.
The state command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Geof­frey Ogbonna, could not be reached for comments, but a senior police officer confirmed the incident and said the police had com­menced investigations.