How Police Officers Die En route Morgue To Collect Remains Of Colleague

• Corpses of the deceased had been deposited at a morgue

• Driver of truck and his “motor boy” fled the scene of the accident

Two police officers and one other person died in a fatal auto mishap that occurred on Thursday along the Ajaokuta-Ojodu-Ayingba road in Kogi state.

NAN reports that William Aya, the police public relations officer (PPRO) in Kogi state, who  confirmed the incident, said the two police officers were assigned to pick the corpse of the deceased sergeant at Ayingba.

He disclosed that the officers were also to accompany the Adamawa for burial as requested by the family of the deceased.

Ekohotblog gathered  that the driver of the truck and his “motor boy” fled the scene of the accident to evade arrest.

Aya also explained that the corpses of the deceased had been deposited at a morgue in Lokoja, the Kogi capital, while that of the driver had been released to his family for burial.

By the same token, Solomon Aghure, sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kogi, also confirmed the incident.

Aghure said the deceased persons were travelling in an ambulance when the accident occurred.

He disclosed that the officers and the driver of the ambulance were travelling with an empty casket to pick the corpse of a police sergeant from a mortuary in Ayingba.

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According to him, the ambulance collided with a Mercedes Benz truck coming from the opposite direction at a spot in Ojodu community.