According to local media reports, the accident involved a Golf Wagon and a trailer at about 6:00 in the evening.
The reports added that the leader of the Joint Taskforce team manning the Minna – Kwakuti axis, said that the accident was due to wrongful overtaking and over speeding.
He explained that the Golf, which was carrying seven passengers from Suleja to Minna, collided with the oncoming trailer.
Seven of the passengers had been confirmed dead by medical doctors at the General Hospital Minna and their remains had been deposited at the Minna General Hospital by the taskforce team.