Tragedy struck in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra State yesterday when a hit-and-run driver crashed three children of the same parent to death along Ichi Road at about 2.00pm.
The children a male and two females were rushed to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital Nnewi for medical attention by sympathisers but were pronounced dead when they arrived the emergency ward of the hospital.
The stricken parents of the dead children, Francis and Amara who were seen at the hospital premises were too dumbfounded to talk about the tragic incident.
But a close family relation said the first born, Kosi who was aged eleven and his two sisters were coming back from a school where they had gone for holiday lessons before they were crushed by an alleged reckless driver on the ever busy Nnewi-Onitsha Road.
There was uproar at the NAUTH premises after the incident as mammoth crowd trooped to the hospital to behold the lifeless bodies of the three children before they were deposited at the hospital morgue.
Another family relation who spoke with our source on grounds of anonymity said that they were perfecting arrangement for the release of the dead bodies so that they can go and quickly bury them before it becomes too late as there was no need to keep them in the mortuary.
