A 16-year-old girl is killed in Niger by a tanker driver.

 

A 16-year-old girl named Priscilla Galadima was killed in Minna after being run over by a tanker driver, according to the Police Command in Niger.

 This was verified to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Thursday by the command's spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun.

 The dead was killed tragically while attempting to cross the street at the Shiroro roundabout, according to the command spokeswoman.

 According to him, Minna, a resident of the Barkin-Sale neighborhood, was killed while attempting to cross the street at the Shiroro roundabout.On Wednesday, at around 10 a.m., a Mercedes Benz with the registration number SUL 140 AJ was being driven by Daniel Joshua, a 35-year-old Morris Minna resident, and was traveling from Mandela Road toward the Shiroro roundabout.

 But sometime along the route, he drove carelessly and scraped a Toyota Yaris driven by Abubakar Yahaya of Okada Road with the registration number RJA 375 AA.

 According to reports, the Toyota car chased the Mercedes vehicle in an attempt to get it to stop.

 "Priscilla Galadima, 16, of Barkin-Sale was trying to cross the road by Shiroro roundabout when the Benz struck her in the process," he said.

 In addition to stating that the woman was struck in the other lane, Abiodun claimed, "Unfortunately, an oncoming tanker trailer with Reg.No. JMT 576 YR driven by one Ibrahim Lawal of Jembutu Yola, ran over the deceased." 

He said that after being transferred to General Hospital Minna, the deceased's death was officially declared. Abiodun noted that the deceased was transferred to the mortuary at the Minna General Hospital in Minna while the drivers were detained and taken to the Tudum Wada police division for additional investigation.