Angry youths in Awka, Anambra State, on Friday, set ablaze a truck loaded with cows, over the death of some children hawking wares at Kwata flyover junction in Awka, Anambra State capital.
It was gathered that, the accident happened when a truck which was conveying cattle to an unknown location lost its brakes while descending the Kwata Junction slope, knocking down eight hawkers and injuring four occupants of two other SUV cars, which were all mangled.
The incident which happened about 2pm attracted irate youths, who burnt down the truck and the cattle.
” The youths resisted attempts to free the cattle before setting ablaze the truck”, a source said.
However, military personnel werr later deployed to the scene to disperse irate youths who stopped attempts to tow the truck off the road to make way for free flow of traffic.
