On the second day of trekking to Zaria from Kano for Arbaeen a car skidded and ramped into the blacked dressed mourners injuring 17 people at various degrees.
The accident occurred on Tuesday the 1st of January 2013, just a kilometer away from a designated place where the trekkers will take a rest, when the driver of the Gulf car lost control and ramped into the trekkers, as he avoided a head on collission with an oncoming.
One of the injured, Muhammad bn Kabir, had already attained martrydom as a result. Those injured are now receiving treatement in Zaria as people troop to visit them.
Funeral prayer for late Muhammad kabir will be led by Sheikh Zakzaky on Ar’baeen – Friday the 4th of January 2013 in Zaria.