Five persons, including a riot police officer and a woman, died in an auto crash at NICON junction, Abuja on Friday, when a red Nissan Sunny was crushed by a blue truck carrying sand chippings.
Seven others, including passers-by, also sustained varying degrees of injuries during the incident which caused a traffic gridlock along the busy Berger Road.
The injured persons were rushed to various hospitals while the dead were taken to the National Hospital morgue.
Checks indicated that the car was crushed and it took some time for men of the Federal Road Safety Corps and others to retrieve the bodies of the victims from the mangled car.