{"id":102185,"date":"2022-12-29T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102185"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:00:25","slug":"over-15-persons-are-feared-dead-as-calabar-carnival-turns-bloody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/over-15-persons-are-feared-dead-as-calabar-carnival-turns-bloody\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 15 persons are feared dead as Calabar Carnival turns bloody\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tragedy occured in Calabar metropolis on Tuesday as a Camry car lost control and rammed into the crowd, killing no fewer than 15 persons with several others injured during the Bikers\u2019 Carnival.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bikers\u2019 Carnival is one of the innovations brought into the Calabar Carnival by Governor Ben Ayade to add colour and glamour to the annual festival introduced by former Governor Donald Duke in 2004.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A witness said that shortly after the Bikers\u2019 parade was flagged off about 5:00pm, one of the Camry cars on the parade, sped off from Eleven-Eleven Round-About on Calabar Road heading to Mary Slessor, one of the adjucation points, and lost control, ramming into the crowd around the Central Mosque at Bogobiri.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It killed about 5 persons on the spot.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The witness further said after about 20 minutes of the incident, another five persons died while others died on the way to hospital and a few died at various hospitals to where they were rushed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said those affected were some members of Hausa community, passers-by and shop owners who came for one business or the other around the Bogobiri axis.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the witness, the incident caused pandemonium as people ran helter shelter for safety following reaction by Hausa community whose people were mostly affected.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of the time of filling this report, the corpses had been evacuated while the injured persons numbering over 10 had been rushed to some hospitals for medical attemtion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security operatives have cordoned off the Mary Slessor -Bigobiri axis to forestall breakdown of law and order just as the Carnival ended abruptly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade was already seated with other dignitaries when the incident occurred.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Confirming the incident, the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Cross River, Maikano Hassan, said it occurred when a driver of a camry car lost control and rammed into the crowd of onlookers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hassan, who could not give the figure of casualty, said that victims of the incident had been evacuated to hospital.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, \u201cI 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