The lives of three persons have been claimed by an auto crash along Makera, a suburb of Birnin Kebbi metropolis in Kebbi State at the weekend.
Those who died were a police inspector, Sanusi Kangiwa; an orderly to the chief magistrate of the Sharia court, Khadi Usman Sadiq and a motorcyclist who was yet to be identified.
Eye witnesses said the late inspector was on his way from Makera to Birnin Kebbi when his car rammed into the motorcyclist who died instantly while his car sank into River Dukku where he died.
His corpse was later brought out by sympathisers and taken to hospital and later handed over to his family while the corpse of the dead motorcyclist was taken to a mortuary.
Road safety and security officers were yet to confirm the report as at the time of filing this report.