Five police cadets at the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano, and a civilian were killed on Sunday in an auto crash along Kano-Zaria Expressway.
The crash, according to a colleague of the deceased, Suhail Saulawa, who made the tragic news public via his Twitter handle, @cadet_suhail, occurred at Maraban-Gwanda.
Saulawa gave the names of three of the deceased as; A.M. Bello, Ayisha, Dabiri and Yamad, adding that Dabiri posted on Instagram a few hours before the incident.
“Surely, every soul shall taste the bitterness of death. Today (Sunday), we lost four of our junior cadets on their way back home on break, along Kano-Zaria Expressway.
“Dari, a highly reformed gentleman officer; his dream for better policing will never go in vain. We will continue from where you stopped #RIP, my gentle and loyal boy. See you in a better place.
“At About 22:30hrs (10pm on Saturday), late Dari passed by me while he was dashing and late Yamad was the man of the match in yesterday’s (Saturday) football match. But that’s the irony of life; may Allah forgive them all. RIP,” he tweeted.
Reports said officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps and some policemen rushed to the scene after the news of the mishap reached them on rescue mission, and took the survivors to St Lukes Hospital, Wusasa, Zaria.
