Residents say the bridge collapsed following heavy flooding
At least 21 persons, including 11 disqualified military applicants, were reported killed on Sunday as a bridge collapsed in Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State.The chairperson of Jigawa Civil Society Forum, Musbahu Basirka, toldthat the victims were travelling in a Hummer commuter bus from Kano to Adamawa when the incident happened.
Mr Basirka said the dead include a teenage girl but one of the applicants reportedly survived with leg fracture. PREMIUM TIMES reported on August 6 how the Jigawa State Government diverted traffic from the highway linking the state and Kano with North-east Nigeria over concerns over the state of a bridge on the route following heavy downpours.However, the bridge marked for the work was not the one affected in the Sunday collapse.
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