No fewer than eight passengers, including a pregnant woman, reportedly died in a ghastly auto crash on Monday on the Gbongan-Ibadan expressway.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the victims were travelling in a bus from Ede to Owode in Osun at about 6.40 a.m. when the accident happened.
An eye-witness told NAN that the affected bus passengers were traders from a nearby market who had boarded the ill-fated vehicle for the trip.
It was further learnt that the car crashed into two other vehicles—an ash colored KIA marked KUJ 74 AJ and a white Toyota Hiace also marked XR 930 ABC.
The surge of the crowd at the scene of the accident caused a gridlock with commercial activities temporarily halted.
Mr Imoh Etuk, the state Sector Commander of the FRSC, who confirmed the death toll to NAN, lamented that the accident was due to violation of traffic rules.
Etuk said the corpses of the victims had since been deposited at the morgue of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH-TH) in Osogbo.
He said officials of the FRSC and the state Ambulance Service (O’ Ambulance) as well as the police were involved in the rescue operation
Source: Leadership
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