{"id":2821,"date":"2013-04-29T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/family-of-7-perish-in-road-accident-in-katsina\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:30:45","slug":"family-of-7-perish-in-road-accident-in-katsina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/family-of-7-perish-in-road-accident-in-katsina\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of 7 perish in road accident in Katsina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A ghastly motor accident has killed a family of seven on the Katsina-Kano road in Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina state.<\/p>\n

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Police Command in the state, Aminu Sadiq, told journalists that the accident happened on Saturday at about 8 p.m at Lambar-Rimi town.<\/p>\n

from Kano had a head-on collision.<\/p>\n

He added that five persons died on the spot, while two infants later died and four others sustained various degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n

“They (those who sustained injuries) were rushed to the Katsina General Hospital for medical treatment,\u2019\u2019 the PPRO said.<\/p>\n

Sadiq who said the police were investigating the cause of the accident advised motorists to always obey traffic rules and regulations to reduce road accidents.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the dead were said to be members of the family of one Alhaji Abashe Sarkin-kasuwa, of Kankia Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

They have been buried according to Islamic injunction in Kankia, their home town.<\/p>\n

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