Thirteen persons died in an auto crash along Kaita-Dankama Road in Katsina State, leaving 70 others injured.
An eyewitness told Channels Television that a truck that conveyed the victims left Dankama town on Thursday night for Lagos State, with most of the passengers from the Niger Republic.
Victims who sustained various degrees of injury were taken to various hospitals in the state which include General Hospital Katsina, Federal Medical Centre and Amadi Rimi Orthopaedic Hospital for medical treatment.
Seventy sheep were equally killed in the accident.
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