The trailer driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle due to break failure as it was descending the Enugu/Onitsha Expressway on heading towards Upper Iweka.
Aside the dead, 30 vehicles were burnt while five motorcycles, 10 make-shift structures and goods worth millions of naira also burnt as the trailer caught fire.
Mr. Isa Abubakar, the DPO incharge of central police station Onitsha while confirming the incident said, we remoed 22 corpses, no injured persons, three motorcycles got burnt with 12 buses".
His words, “we are still removing the dead bodies"
The DPO was seen giving directive to his boys while the fire servicemen fought to put off the inferno but to no avail.
