Val tragedy: Bridegroom dies in strange auto crash on way to marriage introduction

While people were busy celebrating love last
Valentine's Day, a family somewhere in Ebonyi
State was suddenly overtaken by grief over what
would have been the beginning of a beautiful love
story between their daughter and the man she was
bringing home for introduction.
The young woman, a native of Uburu in Ohaozara
Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was
bringing home her suitor when only a few poles to
her family house, the vehicle they were traveling in
had an accident and she watched helplessly as the
one she loved took the last breath.
The accident happened at Enufaith in Umunaga
Eweze, just before the Ohaozara West
Development Council in Uburu. They were
traveling in a commercial bus.
Strangely, the young man, an indigene of Abia
State, was the only occupant of the bus that died in
the accident. The intending couple had traveled
alongside a few family members of the man from
Aba for the event that was to hold just a few
meters from the scene of the accident.
According to an eyewitness account, the
passengers claimed that the driver was trying to
avoid hitting an old woman who was crossing the
road when he lost control and hit the wall of a
building.
The eyewitness, Frank Ori said he ran out of his
house when he heard the deafening bang of the
vehicle hitting the wall.
"I heard when people were shouting and so I ran
out of my house to the place. The passengers were
talking about a woman. When we asked whom
they were referring to, they explained that while
they were coming an old woman was crossing the
road.
"So, the driver tried to avoid hitting her. But seeing
that he was about to hit a building, he turned the
steering suddenly and in the process the vehicle
somersaulted and hit another wall. But when we
came out, we could not see any woman fitting the
description they gave. We asked people and they
said that they did not see any woman like that.
"Strangely again, out of all the passengers, it was
only the young man that was killed. The wife-to-be,
who was also traveling with him, suffered only a
small glass cut. They were all coming in the same
vehicle. It was only that man that died from the
accident. The girl he was going to marry had only
a small cut, along with one other woman. Every
other person in the bus was safe. It was just the
three of them that were rushed to the hospital,"
Ori said.
According to Sun, the father of the girl was late,
while her mother resided in the village. The girl
was resident in Aba where she met the late suitor.
Ori explained that when rescuers made to move
the man out of the damaged vehicle, they
discovered that he was not talking.
"It happened that when the vehicle hit the wall,
part of the block that fell from the wall fell on the
man's head. It was lying on his head. Then we
rushed him alongside the wife-to-be and one other
woman that sustained an injury to the
Presbyterian Joint Hospital in Uburu. But before
getting to the hospital, he gave up the ghost," Ori
said.