Photos: Lord's Chosen Church Bus Involved in Deadly Crash with Coca-Cola Depot in Imo, 5 Confirmed Dead

 Tragedy struck on Friday morning in Imo State when a Coaster bus carrying members of the 'Lord's Chosen Charismatic Renewal Movement' collided with a tipper truck, resulting in the death of at least five people.

 The accident occurred on the busy Owerri-Onitsha Road, causing a gridlock.

 According to eyewitnesses, the bus and tipper truck, traveling in the same direction, hit each other and crashed into a nearby Coca-Cola shop at Orogwe in the Owerri West Local Government Area.

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 Five people died instantly and were taken to a nearby hospital, while others were left stuck beneath the bus.

 An eyewitness described the scene, saying, 'The accident is between a long coaster bus carrying members of the 'Lord's Chosen', and a tipper.

 The two vehicles were coming from Onitsha to Owerri but the coaster bus, in an effort to overtake the tipper, now hit it by the side and immediately lost control.'

 The eyewitness continued, 'The driver tried to control the steering but it ran into a Coca-Cola depot where over ten of its staff members were knocked down by the vehicle.

 When people gathered and started pulling victims out from the car, we discovered that three of the Coca-Cola staff members died on the spot. 

Others were badly injured.' A resident of Orogwe community, who wished to remain anonymous, said, 'It was actually the 'Lord's Chosen' driver's fault.

 He wanted to overtake the tipper without considering the narrowness of the road. As I speak, so many people are still stacked under the 'Lord's Chosen' vehicle. 

We have tried to pull the vehicle out to no avail. We have used a heavy-duty vehicle to pull it out to see if there are some people under it, no way.'"