Tears As Nasarawa Groom Was Crushed To Death On His Wedding Day

 

Tragedy befell Ikyangedu community in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State when John Abugu, a would-be groom, was crushed to death a few hours to his wedding. According to The Nation, a Toyota Hilux van ran into the deceased two hours to his wedding.

Abugu reportedly met his tragic end while on his way to pick up his wedding suit at the shop of a nearby drycleaner.

The van crushed him and he was rushed to the hospital where he died in the course of treatment.

Mr Julius Abugu, a chum of the deceased, who became with him at the motorbike on the time the coincidence befell, recalled that he and the late groom had gone to choose his wedding ceremony in shape on the dry cleanser at about 8.30 am on the fateful day as the wedding become scheduled for 10 am.

According to Julius, at the same time as they had been looking to pass the street, Abugu did now not appearance well before entering the street and became knocked down by means of a Toyota Hilux van.

He said the injuries Abugu sustained had been on his forehead however he appeared to have usually internal ones.

He attributed Abugu’s inability to sight the Hilux van to the dizziness that could have resulted from the pressure of walking round to look that matters had been in order for the wedding.

Things were said to have taken a flip for the more severe whilst Abugu commenced vomiting uncontrollably at the health center.

Julius said: “I can’t simply give an explanation for how the complete occasion became out that manner. John (Abugu) changed into full of lifestyles and we have been together going up and right down to see that the arrangement turned into so as.

‘He certainly regarded forward to the wedding’

“He was so glad that he become going to get married day after today. He became busy the previous day receiving his friends who had been coming from long distances.

“We went to see the drycleaner the day gone by, however because there has been no light, he could not iron the healthy. But he assured that once there has been mild inside the night, he could do it for us to pick it up early within the morning tomorrow, and that was what we did.

“When he desired to visit the dry cleaner, I insisted that I might experience the motorcycle but he said I shouldn’t worry, that he might trip. He become really telling me approximately certainly one of his buddies whom he was awaiting that morning to apply his car to convey them to the church for the marriage and after the marriage.

“Due to the excitement in him, he didn’t look at each facets of the road earlier than coming into the motorway wherein the Hilux hit the two folks. We both sustained accidents but he turned into more affected, and we have been rushed to the hospital at once.

“Even at the sanatorium, we had been being treated together. But a couple of minutes later, his scenario worsened as he changed into bleeding from his ears, eyes and nostril, and he suddenly died.”

Julius defined his past due friend as a committed young man who turned into very accommodating.

Speaking to our correspondent, the father of the bride, Mr Patrick Hudu, said: “We do now not want this. We did no longer pray for this. It is not our desire. It isn't our expectations.

“I become with my son-in-regulation the day before today (penultimate Friday) and he became complete of life. If anyone had advised me the marriage might no longer preserve, I might no longer agree with it. But God has finished it.

“We are human, we are flesh, so we are not going to see it the way you see it, Lord. We are going to peer it the way you see it Lord, we're going to be pained and we are sincerely pained, however God is aware of higher.”