School children escaped death from a ghastly accident as a truck loaded with cows collided with electric high-tension wire.

The accident happened at about 3:30 pm this afternoon along Orlu Road Ekwulobia by the entrance gate of Central School Ekwulobia off St John’s Cathedral church, just a few minutes after closing hour of the school.

The ghastly accident involved a truck which was driven by a Hausa man with two other men in the front seat and another Hausa man sitting at the back (almost at the roof) of the open truck with the cows.