Photos - 3 siblings survived trailer accident in Anambra yesterday

  Photo credit: The Nation 

 

These are photos of the three surviving members of a family whose parents, Mr and Mrs Okechukwu Odinigwe and the eldest son were crushed to death after a trailer who was running from FRSC officials in Awka rammed into their family car and fell on their car at Esther Obiakor Junction, Agu Awka on the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway yesterday, killing the man, his wife and their first son.

The surviving children aged 7 years old, 4 years old and 6 months old are being treated at the Regina Caeli Hospital in Awka the state capital. Another pic after the cut...


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