Touching Story: Pastor’s Wife, 3 Children, 4 Others Perish In Auto Crash

Tragedy struck, Saturday evening, as at least eight individuals including a Pastor’s wife, Pastor (Mrs) Hellen Samuel, her three children, Saviour, Ensigne and Purity, were allegedly slain in an auto smash into in Katagbegi town of Niger State.

The misfortune occured when the coach owned by the Niger State Transport administration they were travelling in ran into an articulated motor motor motor truck at a awful location along Bida-Minna street.

The family of Pastor Abraham Samuel of the Potter Porch place of worship, Minna and the other passengers in the coach were said to be travelling from Lagos to Minna when the smash into occured at about 8pm, Saturday night.

The coach, according to eyewitness, was said to have caught blaze soon after the misfortune, thereby making rescue efforts tough.

It was, although, accumulated that only one traveller was released alive with serious burns.


exceptional consultant to the Niger State Government on crisis and catastrophe administration, Mohammed Shaba, confirmed that the eight bodies had been recovered from the view of the accident, even though the bus was accepted to be bearing 18 travellers at the time of the misfortune.

Shaba said corpses of the deceased had been made a down payment at the Minna General clinic.

The travellers were said to have been scorched in the vehicle because the localized persons that hurried for the release efforts lacked the capacity to curtail the blaze.

Our correspondent who went to the place of worship contacted the Pastor preaching during yesterdy’s place of worship service after which he broadcast the demise of his wife and three young kids.

constituents of the place of worship shouted at the news but the Pastor remained serene with elders of the church round him.

According to Pastor Samuel who, however, sustained sober mood “My wife and the kids are resting.”